Found an awesome piece of seventies reportage on the BBC today that captures Dubai shortly after the first discovery of oil deposits under its sands. Possibly more amusing if you remember Jamie Farr’s ‘Sheik’ from the Cannonball Run. If nothing else, it’s a sobering reminder how quickly Dubai has boomed from being a ‘tiny sheikdom in the Persian Gulf’ (how quaint!) to being the gaudiest, glitziest and showiest centre of power since Xanadu.
In case the excellent iplayer embed script doesn’t work, you can see it here.