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[#158174] Written by: JungleBoy [26/04/11, 13:00]
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BBC Secrets of the Arabian Nights PDTV x264 AAC MVGroup

The Arabian Nights arrived in the West 300 years ago and its stories have entranced generations of
children and seduced adults with a vision of an exotic, magical Middle East. Richard E Grant wants
to know why the book he loved as a child still has such a hold on our imagination. He travels to
Paris to discover how the stories of Sinbad, Ali Baba and Aladdin were first brought to the West by
the pioneering Arabist Antoine Galland in the early 18th century. The Nights became an overnight
literary sensation and were translated into all the major European languages. In Cairo, Richard
explores the medieval Islamic world which first created them and finds that some of the stories are
still controversial because of their sexually-explicit content. Richard meets the Egyptian writer
Gamal al Ghitani, who received death threats when he published a new edition of the book, and finds
that the ribald and riotous stories in the Nights represent a very different view of Islam than
fundamentalism.

BBC Site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010jt2h

Technical Spec
Video Codec: x264 CABAC
Video Bitrate: 1400 Kbps
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.777:1
Video Resolution: 832x468
Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Audio Bitrate: 96 Kbps VBR 48KHz
Audio Channels: 2
Run-Time: 59mins
Framerate: 25FPS
Number of Parts: 1
Part Size: 633 MB
Source: PDTV
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