Old Persian

Persian Gulf

And the BBC was born.

Persian is not a difficult language.

BBC Weather from UK MET Office

I think I want to study Persian.

A Persian cat was sleeping under the table.

Even the BBC and the New York Times.

Even the BBC and The New York Times.

There is an old story about a Persian cat.

Not even place it at NPR, PBS or BBC.

Here's how the great Persian poet Rumi put it

On the left, you have Rupert Murdoch, or the BBC.

What's the role of the BBC, for instance, in that world?

And then a BBC crew came cruising through the biology department,

My father was listening to BBC News on his small, gray radio.

The BBC got their first wind of the Chinese quake from Twitter.

We're not even on BBC or CNN yet! That irritates me! Come on!

I was also making a TV series for the BBC at the time.

And we're also adding 18 new input languages, including Persian, Hindi, and Thai.

Iran and the scientist who chose God to administer this Revelation is Persian Mehran

And it was written by a Persian mathematician who lived in Baghdad, in, in...

But it might come to that as a result of a disastrous miscalculation. BBC PANORAMA

Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Iraqi, Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC 24 hours a day.

His Majesty's subjects were to listen to the broadcasts in silence using only BBC approved receivers.

My first connection with the news media was in 1984, the BBC had a one day strike.

The best advice to follow when buying a Persian carpet is to have a good knowledge of carpets!

And by the time of his son Darius, the whole of the eastern Mediterranean is under Persian control.

They started suspecting that what we do on the morning, and the afternoon, it's on the news, BBC, RFl.

We only have two percent of the world's oil reserves 65 percent of them are in the Persian Gulf.

We do the same thing with the price of policing the Persian Gulf and keeping the shipping lanes open.

And I've also been called, as an Egyptian Lebanese Syrian American with a Persian name, the Middle East Peace Crisis.

In Nature's Great Events, a series for the BBC that I did with David Attenborough, we wanted to do just that.

Persian carpets, the frescoes of Giotto in Padua, and the masterpieces of Poussin, Pierro Della Francesca, and Cezanne have in common?

Seclusion of women was actually a Byzantine and Persian practice, and Muslims adopted that and made that a part of their religion.

While I was absent from Iran, the Islamic Revolution had descended on Iran and had entirely transformed the country from Persian to the Islamic culture.

Many years ago, when we first started going out, she was working for the BBC in Britain, and I was, at that stage, working in America.

They translated from Latin and Greek into Arabic, into Persian, and then it was translated on into the Germanic languages of Europe and the Romance languages.

And the terrorists built their very own op center across the border in Pakistan, where they monitored the BBC, al Jazeera, CNN and Indian local stations.

Our TVs would pick up Aramco TV, Bahrain TV, Qatari TV, and if the weather was really good, we would be able to watch cartoons in Persian.

The BBC beeps, they sound turquoise, and listening to Mozart became a yellow experience, so I started to paint music and paint people's voices, because people's voices have frequencies that I relate to color.

To give you an example, a researcher at the BBC working on a Robert Peston documentary went to the Bank of England and said, Can you give me a guide to how money is created?

To give you an example, a researcher at the BBC working on a Robert Peston documentary went to the Bank of England and said, Can you give me a guide to how money is created?

I'd like to leave you with a poem by a fourteenth century Persian poet named Hafiz that my friend, Jacques Dembois told me about, and the poem is called The God Who Only Knows Four Words

In this eight year period, 1977 to 85, when we last paid attention, the economy grew 27 percent, oil use fell 17 percent, oil imports fell 50 percent, oil imports from the Persian Gulf fell 87 percent.