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42-1017: Conran is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexis Conran , British actor Alys Conran , Welsh poet Conran of Orkney , 7th-century Bishop of Orkney H. L. Conran (1861–1924), Australian pastoralist and stockbroker Jasper Conran (born 1959), British fashion designer John Conran (born 1958), Irish hurling player and manager Kerry Conran , American film director, and writer Shirley Conran (1932–2024), British novelist, mother of Jasper Sebastian Conran (born 1956), British product designer, son of Shirley and brother of Jasper Sophie Conran (born 1965), British designer, half-sister of Jasper and Sebastian Terence Conran (1931–2020), British designer and writer, father of Jasper and Sebastian Tony Conran (1931–2013), Welsh poet See also [ edit ] Conran, Missouri , USA Conran Octopus , British book publisher [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

84-404: A carriage and blocks its path. The carriage windows open to reveal the beautiful Princess Zubaïda ( Vanessa-Mae ). The two see each other and fall in love. While escaping, Aladdin meets a mysterious African traveler named Mustappa ( Hugh Quarshie ), who claims to have been a friend of Aladdin's father and is willing to pay him a high price to do a 'simple' task. Aladdin agrees and meets Mustappa at

126-456: A complete new story, Scheherazade begins her next tale by following on from the last, explaining that Faisal ( Stanley Lebor ) designed Morgiana's wedding attire and his wife, Safil ( Jamila Massey ), from Constantinople (or Istanbul given the architecture and being under Muslim rule), were at Ali Baba's wedding. Back in Constantinople, the couple have dinner with Bac-Bac ( Alexei Sayle ),

168-448: A consumer affairs based talk show which aired from 1pm to 3pm on Saturday afternoons. From 20 January 2018 to June 2020, the show changed from being consumer affairs based to being a news phone-in discussion programme, still presented by Conran, with the new airtime of 4pm to 7pm on Saturdays. He also presented a Sunday morning political programme until June 2020, when he left the station for Times Radio . Since July 2020, he has presented

210-455: A cruel joke. When Amin wakes, he at first thinks he has lost his mind, but soon begins to enjoy being Sultan. He also takes the job much more seriously as well and makes beneficial adjustments to the taxes and the wages of his army, with the Grand Vizier and Commander of the army Abou Nouz (a play on Abu Nuwas , a courtier of Harun's successor Al-Amin ) noting that Amin has gotten more done in

252-503: A day, than the real Sultan has in years. Overhearing this, an angered Abraschild spikes Amin's drink with sleeping powder and has him back into the streets as a beggar. When Amin awakes, he is traumatized and insists he is the Sultan, prompting the city guards to put him in an insane asylum . Abraschild decides to repeat the joke and again drugs Amin and returns him to the palace dressed as Sultan. When Amin wakes and becomes hysterical, he hears

294-448: A dual role), Jason Scott Lee , Vanessa-Mae , Alexei Sayle , Jim Carter , James Callis , and Oded Fehr . The series starts in Baghdad at an undetermined time (since the story teller seems to live during the late 8th century, but the stories that are told take place during the era of muskets, Englishmen, and Qing-era Chinese hairstyles & architecture, which means they take place from

336-435: A hill where the dazed Forty Thieves are arrested (and later hanged) by the city guards, although Black Coda escapes. To celebrate their victory, Ali Baba hosts a feast. Morgiana performs an exotic dance for Ali Baba during which she stabs one of the guests, killing him. She removes the man's false beard, revealing him to be Black Coda. Awed by her loyalty, Ali Baba marries Morgiana. To prevent Shahryar realizing she's starting

378-418: A lonely drunkard beggar who meets the ruthless Sultan Haroun Abraschild (a play on the historical Caliph Harun al-Rashid ), played by James Frain. After Amin drunkenly brags he could do a better job as Sultan, Abraschild kidnaps the unconscious Amin and dresses him as the Sultan, then orders his servants to pretend Amin is the Sultan, as he watches the events unfold from secret chambers behind the palace walls as

420-711: A merchant trading new lamps for old ones, prompting a servant in Aladdin's palace to give the magic lamp to the Mustappa. Once the lamp comes into Mustappa's possession, he wishes to undo all Aladdin's wealth. Using the Genie of the Ring, Aladdin challenges Mustappa to a fight to the death with their magic. Each Genie transforms into one beast after another, until the Ring Genie is trapped in a giant mousetrap. Although Mustappa appears to have won, Aladdin

462-547: A result of their adventures, when the brothers eventually succeed their father, they rule the kingdom together in peace and harmony. Arabian Nights was filmed on location in Turkey and Morocco and at Antalya Film Studios, Turkey. Variety wrote "Lush, lavish and longer than necessary, ABC’s “Arabian Nights” is definitely an appealing spectacle but overly sluggish in too many places"; whereas TV Guide wrote "Gracefully directed and lavishly mounted, this delicious adaptation bears

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504-579: A secret test of character. The last brother, Hussain, travels west to the underground city of Petra . He wanders through the underground market looking for the most precious thing in the world, eventually finding a flying carpet . The journeys of the brothers take up the given year, and all three meet at the Traveller's Rest. Ali's telescope reveals that their father is on his deathbed. The brothers race back to Yemen on Hussain's carpet to save their father with Ahmed's apple of life. Scheherazade explains that as

546-569: A show on Times Radio between 1-4pm on Saturday and Sunday. Conran is a technophile . He is a collector of playing cards, owning over 5,060 decks and spends an hour each day practising card tricks. Arabian Nights (miniseries) Arabian Nights is a two-part 2000 miniseries , adapted by Peter Barnes from Sir Richard Francis Burton 's translation of the medieval epic One Thousand and One Nights . Mili Avital and Dougray Scott star as Scheherazade and Shahryar respectively. Produced by Dyson Lovell and directed by Steve Barron ,

588-401: Is about the sons of the long-suffering Sultan of Yemen , Prince Ali ( Alexis Conran ), Prince Ahmed ( James Callis ), and Prince Hussain ( Hari Dhillon ). The three are each gifted fighters and fight each other over the smallest of matters. Both their parents believe that when the Sultan dies, the sons will fight each other for the throne and will destroy the kingdom. After causing chaos in

630-550: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alexis Conran Alexis Conran is a British actor , writer and presenter on TV and radio, who currently hosts the weekend afternoon show on Times Radio and as of 2023 the afternoon segment of the Jeremy Vine Show on Channel 5 which follows Storm Huntley ’s slot. He is also known for co-hosting the BBC Three show The Real Hustle from 2006 until 2012. He

672-665: Is still a thief and is able to pick-pocket Mustappa, taking the Lamp and thus stealing his victory. Reunited with his mother and Zubaïda, Aladdin grants both the Genies their freedom, though only the Genie of the Ring accepts the offer. At the beginning of the story, Scheherazade explains that her next story is about Amin the Beggar (who looks exactly like Shahryar) and the mean-spirited Sultan Abraschild (who looks exactly like Shahryar's brother) who rules Cairo . The story follows Amin, ( Dougray Scott )

714-485: Is that of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves . Ali Baba ( Rufus Sewell ) is a poor peasant from Damascus who finds a magical cave where the loot is stolen by the Forty Thieves, a tribe of murderous bandits that have plagued the kingdom. Using the magic words "Open Sesame!", Ali enters the cave and takes the treasure. When Ali tells his brother Cassim ( Andy Serkis ) about the cave, Cassim demands his own share and goes to

756-429: Is walking home in a drunken stupor. Bac-Bac's body falls onto Jerome, who believes he is being attacked. He repeatedly hits the body against a wall and calls the nearby guards. The guards recognize Bac-Bac and arrest Jerome for murder. Jerome is put on trial and sentenced to death. Unable to bear the guilt, Hi-Ching, Ezra, and Faisal all confess that they had killed the poor hunchback. In the middle of all their arguments,

798-409: The surname Conran . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conran&oldid=1226687916 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

840-593: The Channel 4 show Eye Spy and in August 2015 he presented the Channel 5 morning show The Wright Stuff whilst the host was on holiday. Conran played the role of Dr Petridis in ITV's The Durrells . In 2016, he co-presented The Joy of Techs with his best friend, Marcus Brigstocke . He was Celebrity MasterChef Champion 2016. Conran presented Radio Hustles on Talkradio ,

882-639: The Lamp Genie (also John Leguizamo ) an incredibly powerful and intimidating spirit who can grant Aladdin's wishes. Aladdin and his mother wish to become royalty and for a fortune which they use to buy their way into the Royal Court . Aladdin asks the Caliph for Princess Zubaïda's hand in marriage, but he is turned down as the Princess is betrothed to Gulnare, the oafish son of the Caliph's vizier . Aladdin discovers that

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924-520: The Princess is in love with him and using the Lamp Genie, he is able to humiliate Zubaïda's betrothed on their wedding night to prevent the marriage from being consummated, by trapping the vizier's son in a foul-smelling privy, and then marry the Princess himself after her furious father annuls the marriage . In Africa, Mustappa realizes that Aladdin is alive and has married as his pet raven, Hector, loses all his feathers. Mustappa goes to Samarkand dressed as

966-447: The Sultan ( Tony Osoba ) comes and demands to know who killed his jester. The Sultan realizes Bac-Bac's death was an accident in any event and frees Jerome and the others, explaining that Bac-Bac would have been amused by the manner of his death. This story tells the classic tale of Aladdin ( Jason Scott Lee ), a Chinese thief living in the caliphate of Samarkand (actually, China). While fleeing authorities for pick-pocketing, he sees

1008-428: The Sultan must be married again or the throne will be passed to his brother. Shahryar has therefore ordered his Grand Vizier , Ja'Far ( Jim Carter ), to bring him one of his concubines from the harem to marry and then have executed the next morning. In order to prevent this, the Grand Vizier 's clever daughter, Scheherazade ( Mili Avital ), decides to marry the Sultan herself; Scheherazade (a childhood friend of

1050-517: The Sultan who has secretly fallen in love with him since then) formulates a plan to prevent her execution, and at the same time cure the Sultan of his madness. With the help of some tutoring from a bazaar storyteller ( Alan Bates ), Scheherazade (an already-avid lover of stories and of the lessons they can teach) tells the Sultan a story every night, stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger , and then refusing to continue until dusk. Shahryar must therefore let Scheherazade live for another day in order to hear

1092-463: The Sultan's hunchbacked - jester , during which Bac-Bac chokes on a fishbone and dies. Worried about their reputation, Faisal and Safil leave the body on the doorstep of a Jewish physician, Ezra Ben Ezra ( Leon Lissek ). Before Dr. Ezra can take a look at Bac-Bac, he trips over him in the dark and they both fall down his doorway stairs. After the fall, Ezra finds the dead body and assumes that he accidentally killed him. Recognizing Bac-Bac, they repeat

1134-435: The actions of Faisal and Safil by dropping the body down the chimney of their Chinese neighbor, Hi-Ching ( Junix Inocian ). Hi-Ching mistakenly believes that he is about to be robbed and attacks Bac-Bac with Kung Fu . Hi-Ching mistakenly believes that he killed Bac-Bac by hitting him so hard and (like the others) he fears for his welfare. So he carries the body to a dark alcove, where Englishman Jerome Gribben ( Roger Hammond )

1176-410: The cave himself where he is discovered and killed by the leader of the Forty Thieves, the infamous Black Coda ( Tchéky Karyo ). Ali Baba finds Cassim's body hung-up by the Forty Thieves as a warning to others. With the help of his newly hired servant, Morgiana ( Amira Casar ), Ali takes down the body and gives Cassim a lavish funeral. This alerts Black Coda and the Forty Thieves to the fact that Cassim

1218-544: The city by fighting over a Princess, their father challenges each of his sons to bring him what they believe is the most precious object in the world, giving them one year to complete their quest. Ali heads north to a brazen kingdom, and finds a powerful telescope. Ahmed travels east to a mountain Buddhist monastery which possess a mystic apple (the Apple of Life), which when eaten can heal any wound or illness and earns it when he passes

1260-518: The city, Scheherazade's plan has worked. As a result of her stories, Shahryar has overcome his madness and has fallen in love with Scheherazade. Using strategies inspired from elements from the stories, Shahryar is able to defeat his brother's army. At the end of the battle, it is revealed that all that had been seen was a story itself, recounted by Scheherazade to her children. The series ends with Scheherazade promising to tell her children another story tomorrow night. The first story told by Scheherazade

1302-455: The entrance of the Cave of Wonders. Mustappa gives Aladdin a ring, and swears "by Hector's feathers", that Aladdin will not see his wedding day if he betrays Mustappa. Aladdin enters the Cave and walks through a Terracotta Army until he finds the lamp. He races back to the entrance, where Mustappa asks Aladdin to give him the lamp before he helps him out. Aladdin refuses, believing Mustappa will take

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1344-466: The lamp and leave him in the cave. Mustappa, enraged, closes the cave's entrance and abandons Aladdin, just as the Terracotta warriors come to life. In desperation, Aladdin rubs Mustappa's ring and summons the neurotic Genie of the Ring ( John Leguizamo ) who reluctantly frees Aladdin from the cave. Back home with his mother, Aladdin wonders why Mustappa would want a worthless old oil lamp. Rubbing it frees

1386-408: The late 17th century to the early 19th century). The Sultan of Baghdad, Shahryar ( Dougray Scott ), has gone mad having accidentally killed his treacherous wife five years earlier during a failed coup d'état , which his wife had planned with her secret lover, Shahryar's brother, Schahzenan ( James Frain ). In his madness, Shahryar now believes that all women want to kill him, but the law states that

1428-429: The rest of the story. Cunningly, Scheherazade has hidden a moral within every story , to help coax the Sultan out of his madness. Meanwhile, Schahzenan (Shahryar's brother) learns about the Sultan's madness and that he is unable to execute his new wife. Perceiving this as weakness, Schahzenan decides to lead his army to Baghdad in an attempt to take the throne by force. However, by the time Schahzenan's army reaches

1470-672: The serial was produced by Hallmark Entertainment and originally broadcast over two nights on 30 April and 1 May 2000 on BBC One in the United Kingdom and ABC in the United States . The series consists of five stories from One Thousand and One Nights , which are framed within a sixth, maintaining the traditional style of stories within stories that is synonymous with the Nights . The series cast includes Alan Bates , Rufus Sewell , Andy Serkis , James Frain , John Leguizamo (in

1512-403: The snickering of Abraschild from inside one of the secret chambers. Panicking, Amin draws a sword and inadvertently stabs Abraschild, believing he is a demon . Seeing that Abraschild is dead and he has left no heir, the Sultan's advisers decide to prevent civil war by telling everyone that the real Sultan has gone on a pilgrimage to Mecca , and that Amin was chosen as the Sultan's successor, all

1554-456: The while continuing to tell Amin that he is the one and only Sultan Haroun Abraschild. Amin goes on to become a respected Sultan beloved by the court and his people. At the end of the story, as his brother's army approaches Baghdad , Sultan Shahryar realizes he is in love with Scheherazade and has been cured of his madness, but Scheherazade feels Shahryar needs to hear one more story before he goes into battle. The last story told by Scheherazade

1596-569: Was a member of a team of experts advising the writers and actors of the hit BBC series Hustle , which he later co-wrote and presented ( confidence trickster ) on the follow-up 2006–2012 hit series The Real Hustle on BBC Three . In 2015 he starred in the show Man v Expert on the Discovery Channel , in which he used various tricks to try to beat experts in their own field of expertise. In 2013 Conran wrote and presented Hustling America for Channel 5 and National Geographic , which

1638-475: Was born in south Paris , France , and moved to Greece when he was a child. Conran won Celebrity Masterchef 2016 on 29 July, beating Louise Minchin and Jimmy Osmond in the final. Conran was born in Paris to a father who was a gambling addict and started to get into debt. He turned to crime and became a thief and conman, eventually getting arrested. When Conran was seven years old, his parents divorced. He

1680-452: Was not alone in taking their treasure. Black Coda discovers that Ali Baba and Morgiana are living in a lubricious estate in Damascus and devises a plan to kill all in the household. The Forty Thieves enter the city hidden in oil barrels which are placed outside Ali's estate where they wait for nightfall. Before they can strike, Morgiana discovers the barrels and rolls them down to the bottom of

1722-594: Was similar to The Real Hustle . He has helped the Office of Fair Trading show consumers how to avoid becoming the victim of a fraud. His other television roles include 2 episodes he starred in season 5 of the show Waking the Dead , as Michael Sherman. He appeared in the TV show Wire in the Blood . He also starred in a TV advert for Zovirax cold sore cream. In 2013 he appeared in

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1764-507: Was then raised by his mother with the help of her parents. He is of Greek heritage. Aged 16, he moved to London to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art . In 2000, Conran starred in the music video for Blockhead 's "Insomniac Olympics", directed by Sam Arthur. . Later that year he had a minor role in the TV miniseries Arabian Nights , playing Prince Ali. His stage work includes Excuses! in 2003. In 2003, he

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