10 Jun: The Telegraph (UK). Excerpts: Although there's much to admire and many sights to enjoy, Everett tells the tale of Richard Burton kidnapping a nun in Goa that he'd taken a fancy to as a funny story (the "joke" being that he and his man servant kidnapped the mother superior instead) . At a convent in Goa, Everett not only flirts outrageously with the nuns, he gets them to do How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria...
The programme, 49 minutes, was broadcast on UK TV on 9 June. It can be viewed online till 16 June. Go to http://www.channel4.com/video/the-victorian-sex-explorer/catchup.html To watch the Goa segment (3m.20s) fast forward to 15:00 minutes. Richard Burton coined the word Goanese. He wrote an account of his stay in Goa entitled "Goa, and the Blue Mountains: Or, Six Months of Sick Leave." 368 pages. 1851. To read the book online, go to http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=GNc3AAAAMAAJ&dq=Burton+Goa&printsec =frontcover&source=web&ots=q8yUItX_jJ&sig=PLI3T_ntnWaQZ_fhJ-T2avjLyw0#PPP9,M 1 Paper copies of the book are on sale for prices ranging from $1 (reprint) to $5950 (1851 edition). For details see http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Burton&sortby=1&tn=Goa&x=34 &y=7 If you have a problem will the links, access them from http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/ Eddie Fernandes