with Barry Cunliffe.
One of the effects of the recent Gulf War was to pit Arab against Arab in a confrontation that led many commentators to believe the old ideal of the Arab nation to be dead.
John Miller asks Peter Mansfield whether the concept of an Arab nation is a myth or historical reality. And as Barcelona prepares for the Olympic Games next year Felipe Fernandez Armesto looks back at the city's colourful past.
Producer John Knight