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The Lion in the Sand

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2: A Little Dream World. Britain was at the forefront of oil exploration in Persia, Iraq and the Gulf in the opening decades of this century. Many of the Britons out there lived in company compounds, cocooned from the alien and primitive world around them. It was "a little dream world. "But in the 1950s nationalism and revolution shattered the dream. Gerald Butt reports. Repeated from Friday

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