Frank Gardner’s Return to Saudi Arabia
Wed Apr 10, 9-10pm, BBC2
It’s facilitated, of course, by the country’s vast oil wealth – at the height of the Arab Spring, the government rained down £80 billion of welfare spending on its people – but can it possibly be sustainable? Gardner’s a charming but dogged presence, speaking to everyone from women’s rights activists to members of the governing family in search of Saudi Arabia’s essence. He returns with something genuinely illuminating.
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