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18听February听2006
DUBAI
The city of Dubai, in the Arabian Peninsula, is in the process of reinventing itself as the playground of the western world.
Sandi is joined by writers and enthusiasts of the Middle East, Sarah Monaghan, and Anthony Sattin to discuss Arabia 's past and future and the impact that this development is having on its residents, visitors and neighbours.
WILFRED THESIGER (1910 - 2003)
The British explorer Wilfred Thesiger spent more than sixty years journeying to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth. He was one of the first Europeans to cross the Arabian desert known as the Empty Quarter.
His biographer and close friend Alexander Maitland explains to Sandi Toksvig what drove Thesiger to explore the harshest of environments.听
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
听听has a strong interest and experience of the Middle East, having lived and worked in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) where she edited its leading glossy women's title, Emirates Woman, for four years.听 She was the Editor of Middle East Health, Living in the Gulf and Emirates Woman magazines and client publications for Emirates Airlines and Qatar Airways (1997-2003).听 She is currently a part-time freelance editor of Gabon magazine.
Anthony Sattin is a writer, critic and broadcaster who has travelled extensively in the Middle East, an area that features prominently in his writing.听 Anthony is the author of several books including a novel Shooting the Breeze and most recently The Gates Of Africa: Death, Discovery & The Search For Timbuktu.听 His highly acclaimed book The Pharaoh's Shadow, which is a search for surviving ancient culture in modern Egypt and was the subject of a Radio 4 documentary.听
Alexander Maitland听has worked most of his life in architecture but is the author of several of books on exploration.
In his previous book entitled Wilfred Thesiger: 'A Life in Pictures', Alexander had selected and introduced almost 200 of the travellers photographs, many of them previously unpublished.听 The pictures tell the story of Thesiger's journeys in many lands.
Wilfred Thesiger - The Life of the Great Explorer
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0002556081
Wilfred Thesiger: 'A Life in Pictures'
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0002572249听
听 (3 June 1910 - August 24, 2003) was a British explorer and travel writer.The 大象传媒 cannot be held responsible for
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 Sandi Toksvig:
The daughter of a foreign correspondent, Sandi has been travelling all her life more info |
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John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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