akzent

will be broadcast next Monday, but I may forget until then, so here is the link to BBC Radio4 website where you can listen to it live on Mon June 30 at 11 am London time:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4


The announcement:

Wrestling With The Iranians
Monday 30 June
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4

This documentary examines Iran's national sport of wrestling and what it means to its people.

For Iranians, Gholamreza Takhti, an Olympic champion and national hero, epitomises the essential qualities of a wrestler: chivalry and sportsmanship. The Takhti Cup, held in his honour, commemorates the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Wrestling With The Iranians explores the Iranian love of the sport, its history and significance. Wrestling is an ancient tradition in Persia, related to pre-Islamic times and Sufi spiritualism. In Zurkhaneh, or "houses of strength", wrestlers train in a ritual little changed in a thousand years and are expected to be pure, truthful and good-tempered – and only then strong in body.

Producer/Jo Coombs

Yazdani

Merci agha Akzent!

karamazov

I would love to go to Iran to watch some wrestling.

cyclone10

nice!