2025-11-09
49 分钟This is the documentary from the BBC World Service.
Just to let you know that this edition, The Great Hunger,
contains interviews you may find upsetting, including references to cannibalism.
I haven't seen my relatives for such a long time.
Hello, Tina.
Nice to meet you.
Welcome, please.
Today I'm meeting with two of my aunts, my closest ones, younger sisters with my late father,
with my brother, with my cousins, and even my brother-in-law.
Welcome back.
How was your flight?
I hope we will have a really nice evening.
And for dinner, this is Khadra.
which I was missing so much.
That's a horse meat.
And we're going to have a traditional Kazakh dish called besh parmak.
Besh parmak, we just boil the horse meat, make a broth with onions, carrots, potatoes.
We make a sausage with horse meat.
And that's the tastiest thing in the world for Kazakhs.
My name is Rosa Kudabaeva, and we are in Kazakhstan, where I was born and grew up,