The Berbers Secret

Eric Idle: I want the music of each of these episodes to function like another character in the story. He says he's not an expert on every single instrument and sometimes a composition needs a real specialist, what you might call a virtuoso. And it just so happens that the first one is from the episode The Berbers Secret. That was the story about a conceited prince who learns that being made fun of is no fun at all. Today, we're going to focus on three of those stories; pay special attention to the sound of the viola de gamba.