The Magical Wonders of Marrakesh
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The Magical Wonders of Marrakesh

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 19, 202612 min
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  • Arts & culture

Travel writer Ute Junker has just returned from Marrakesh, and she's here to share what caught her eye with Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife.

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Ah yes, on board the train indeed the Marrakesh Express and the very name of the Moroccan

winding souks and stall holders calling out to shoppers at the scent of spices and smoky

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Ah yes, on board the train indeed the Marrakesh Express and the very name of the Moroccan Red City of Marrakesh elicits all sorts of exotic images and ochre coloured walls and winding souks and stall holders calling out to shoppers at the scent of spices and smoky

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grills in the air. Of course as Crosby stills and Nash remind us in the 60s and 70s Marrakesh was big in popular culture. It was a Bohemian mecca for artists and musicians and fashion designers and counterculture travellers. The great Central Square in Marrakech comes alive at night with stalls and musicians and performers. Tell us more, Travel writer Ute Yunka is with us

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again. Ute, good evening to you. Welcome back to Nightlife. Thanks Philip. Terrific to have you Well, terrific to have you back. It also must have been, must have been great for you to go back to Marrakesh. What was it like arriving? Marrakesh is one of those cities that just keeps getting better. And I think that that first sort

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