Paul Vaughan discusses the mystique of the Arabian Nights - the famous tales of Scheherazade, now out in a new hardback edition, and offers a French perspective on the Crusades - that of the Moslem warrior, poet and diplomat Ousama, whose accounts of the battles he fought are voiced at London's Shaw Theatre by Nadim Sawalha.
Producer Nicki Paxman. Rvsd rpt at 9.30pm