BBC - Secrets of the Arabian Nights (2011)
PDTV | 832 x 468 | .MKV/AVC @ 1404 Kbps | 58 min 58 s | 634 MB
Audio: English AAC 96.0 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary
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.