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A Thousand and One

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1/4. Scheherazade. A journey through The Arabian Nights, also known as The Thousand and One Nights. From Aladdin's lamp to genies, this medieval collection of stories-within-stories has become part of the English language. Novelist and Arabist Robert Irwin explores Scheherazade, the woman who escaped death by turning survival into an art form. Producer Jo Glanville

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Robert Irwin
Producer:
Jo Glanville
Source: Radio Times

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