The travel notes and letters of Gustave Flaubert , adapted for radio by ELIZABETH TROOP from the translation by FRANCIS STEEGMULLER With
' Kuchuk Hanem is a tall, splendid creature, lighter in colour than an Arab; she comes from Damascus; her skin, particularly on her body, is slightly coffee coloured. When she bends her flesh ripples into bronze ridges. Her eyes are dark and enormous, her eyebrows black, her nostrils open and wide; heavy shoulders, full, apple-shaped breasts. Dancing, she rises first on one foot, then the other - marvellous moment, when one foot is on the ground the other moves up and across in front of the shin-bone - the whole thing with a light bound. I have seen this on old Greek vases.'
Maxime du Camp.NEVILLE JASON Presenter BRIAN HEWLETT Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS followed by an interlude