Morocco was selected to host the World Cup, and the country's football squad is already dominating the sports podcast cycle ahead of their massive clash with Brazil. On The Rest Is Football, Alan Shearer briefly flagged the highly anticipated matchup, simply listing Brazil, Morocco. His co-host Micah Richards was equally focused on the fixture, promising that the show would be back on your pod feed on Sunday with reaction to Scotland versus Haiti and Brazil versus Morocco.
But the conversation around Morocco this week extends far beyond the pitch. On In Our Time, the discussion turned to North African history as Josephine Quinn praised the archaeological discoveries made by David Mattingly in the region. Quinn asked Mattingly how the work that you've done in the last ten, fifteen years in Morocco, how has that changed your ideas about the Garamantes, if at all?
Whether it is ancient oasis societies or modern-day football giants, Morocco continues to capture the cultural imagination across very different corners of the airwaves.