Thesiger's Travels - recommended

[Guest]

Thesiger at 100 on Radio 4.

I hope you don't miind another rec from R4 - many of you liked the Wainwright programme I noted a few weeks ago elsewhere.

This was superb: quite simply one of the most well-conceived and well-presented programmes I've heard, ever, and Mr Gardner does IMO a sterling job. Unmissable if you're interested in travel and/or history. The excerpts from his past BBC interviews are wonderful to hear.

There is a slight bias: we had a family connection, hence in part my previous railings against Hussein and his persecution of the marsh arabs that I knew a fair bit about and used to get steamed up over, on the other boards.

Anyway, here's the link to the relavant LA - it's available till next Monday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wlbvv

[DracoM]

Endorsed.
Fascinating. His black and white photos are remarkable, quite apart from those travels. Frank Gardener was the model of a presenter / commentator too.

[Sydney Grew]

Thanks for the link. Radio 4 is quite odd - good serious and sensible programmes like this one mixed in with things of the opposite kind such as all that "Archers" business.

[Tragoedia]

As I am a night owl, I sometimes listen to the BBC World Service on Radio 4 and this does throw up some thought-provoking items from time to time.