This Orient Isle (Omnibus)

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03/04/2016

BBC Radio 4 Extra - This Orient Isle (Omnibus)

Derek Jacobi reads a captivating account of Britain's first contact with the Muslim world.

Professor Jerry Brotton’s captivating account of Britain's first contacts with the Muslim world. Read by Derek Jacobi.

Professor Jerry Brotton examines Queen Elizabeth I's fascination with the Orient. 

One of the UK's leading experts on cultural exchange, he shows that England's relations with the Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their influence was felt across the political, commercial and domestic landscape of Elizabethan England.
 
Derek Jacobi reads the captivating account of how Britain sent ships, treaties and gifts to the royal families of Morocco and Turkey, including a gold carriage and a full-size pipe organ.

Omnibus of five parts.  
  
Producer: David Roper

A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2016.

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