They strip themselves naked and put their flimsy little toincloths over them and lie there under the brilliant stars with the wind sighing round them and they get so cold that they can't get up in the morning until the sun has risen and warmed them.
Wilfred Thesiger tells LAURENS VAN DER POST of the rigours and rewards of years spent travelling in that harsh desert region known as the Empty Quarter of Arabia.
(BBC Sound Archive recording) (Repeated: Thursday. 9.35 am)