The Scottish Mail on Sunday

DOCUMENTAR­Y SECRETS AND DEALS: HOW BRITAIN LEFT THE MIDDLE EAST

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Later this month, the World Cup will be hosted in Qatar. It’s not so long ago that the emirate was effectivel­y a British colony, along with Bahrain and the UAE. Here’s the extraordin­ary story of its independen­ce in 1971, revealed in previously unseen documents and interviews with those who were there. BBC4, 9pm

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