The Conference of the Birds — Middle East & Persia (Rare) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Persia, to a poem written eight hundred years ago by a man who kept a chemist's shop and wrote in the evenings. Every bird in the world gathers to go and find their king, and then, one by one, they start making excuses — the nightingale is in love with a rose, the parrot has a nice mirror, the duck cannot leave the water. The hoopoe answers every one of them. Thirty birds finish the journey, and what they find at the end of it is the oldest quiet joke in Persian literature.
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