Sahara - BBC Radio Collections Author:Michael Palin As Michael Palin undertakes the arduous challenge of crossing the merciless Sahara desert, it reveals not only the emptiness of endless sand dunes, but a huge and diverse range of cultures and landscapes, and a long history of civilization, trade, commerce and conquest stretching from the time of the ancient Egyptians to the oil-rich Islamic rep... more »ublics of today. Palin walks with nomadic herders and rides with a camel caravan through Niger, scales the Hoggar Mountains and flies into the oilfields of Algeria, before investigating Colonel Gaddafi's Libya and the stunning classical remains of Tunisia.« less