Iran - China
John McCarthy is joined by Amelia Stewart, whose company specialises in desert travel, to discuss her first group trip to Iran.
IRAN
Iran is a country of extraordinary antiquity, great science and art, yet it also presents to the West a somewhat ambiguous image via the prism of news bulletins and the occasional television or radio documentary.
John McCarthy is joined by Amelia Stewart, whose company specialises in desert travel and who will take her first group for a tour of Iran this weekend and Mary Emma Adams, the wife of the British Ambassador to Iran who has been living there for the past two and a half years. They discuss their experiences as women travellers in Iran.
CHINA
Journalist and writer Simon Winchester reveals a very different China through the life and achievements of the brilliant, eccentric biochemist Joseph Needham (1900-1995). Simon talks about the significance of Needham鈥檚 life long work about China and shares tales of his Chinese travels.
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- Sat 27 Sep 2008 10:00成人快手 Radio 4
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