Close menu

Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 278,127 playable programmes from the BBC

'THE SPELL OF ARABIA'

Third Programme
on Third Programme

View in Radio Times

' The Empty Quarter '
Talk by Wilfrid Thesiger
Wilfrid Thesiger is the third English-man to have crossed the Rub El Khali (the Empty Quarter), a great desert tract of Southern Arabia. Here Mr. Thesiger has spent most of the last two years, and he has recently returned to the Empty Quarter for further exploration.
Before he left, he recorded this analysis of. the fascination he feels for ' a half mythical land of emptiness and death ' and the people who inhabit it
Freya Stark's talk, ‘Two Merchant Nations,' will be repeated on Wednesday at 9.40

Contributors

Talk By:
Wilfrid Thesiger
Talk By:
Wilfrid Thesiger
Unknown:
El Khali
Source: Radio Times

Third Programme

Appears in

View magazine

Suggest an Edit

We are trying to reflect the information printed in the Radio Times magazine.

  • Press the 'Suggest an Edit' button
  • Type in any changes to the title, synopsis or contributor information using the Radio Times Style Guide for reference.
  • Click the Submit Edits button.
    Your changes will be sent for verification and if accepted, will appear in due course More