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Joanna Lumley's Nile episode 3

Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 3

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Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 3: The epic river journey brings the actress to Khartoum, where she watches whirling dervishes practising their devotional dancing and experiences a Sudanese beauty treatment that makes use of wood smoke. She then takes a short diversion into Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains to meet an unusual group of Olympic hopefuls training in the thin air of the highlands.     In “Joanna Lumley’s Nile,” the actress and presenter embarks on a journey down the longest river in the world, exploring the diverse landscapes, cultures, and history that make up the Nile’s basin. Throughout the series, Joanna’s infectious […]

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Joanna Lumley's Nile episode 2

Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 2

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Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 2: The actress follows the river into the deserts of Northern Sudan, where she meets the survivor of a crocodile attack and goes in search of the creature. She is then introduced to the treasures of Nubia, an ancient kingdom of Africa ruled by the little-known Black Pharaohs, before visiting Sudan’s capital city Khartoum, where she talks to nomads who live in the remote sub-Saharan desert.     In “Joanna Lumley’s Nile,” the actress and presenter embarks on a journey down the longest river in the world, exploring the diverse landscapes, cultures, and history that make

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Joanna Lumley's Nile episode 1

Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 1

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Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 1: The actress embarks on an epic journey, exploring the world’s longest river from sea to source. She begins her adventure on a fishing boat on Egypt’s coast, where the Nile spills into the Mediterranean, before capturing the spirit of Agatha Christie in Cairo and enjoying a Nile cruise. She also travels along the river by train, road and felucca sailing boat, and ends the first part of her trip in Aswan, a town the Victorians described as being on the edge of civilisation.     This epic journey, seen through the eyes of one of

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Joanna Lumley's Japan episode 3

Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 3

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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 3: The actress heads to the island of Shikoku hoping to gain a better understanding of Japanese Buddhism. She then takes a bullet train to another island – Kyushu – where she finds the Henn Na Hotel, the world’s first robot hotel. At Nagasaki, she visits Shiroyama Elementary school, one of the only buildings to survive the atomic bomb dropped on the city in 1945. Joanna then travels to Sakurajima, one of the country’s most active volcanoes, before heading to the islands of Okinawa where one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War was

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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 2

Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 2

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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 2: The actress flies over Tokyo in a helicopter. The city was bombed extensively during the Second World War, so almost all of it is a symbol of the post-war economic boom that saw Japan become the world’s second largest economy. While in the capital, Joanna heads out to a nightclub to see a Japanese girl band and witnesses the largely male audience perform almost as much as the artists on stage. Later, Joanna travels to the Kiso Valley to walk the Nakasendo Way, an ancient route that once linked Tokyo to Kyoto, a place best

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Joanna Lumley's Japan episode 1

Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 1

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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 1: Joanna begins a 2,000-mile journey across Japan in Hokkaido, where she meets one of the most important animals in Japanese culture, the red-crowned crane. She arrives in Sapporo during the middle of the annual Snow Festival and meets members of the local indigenous community, before travelling into the Fukushima exclusion zone and taking a bullet train from Nagano to Tokyo.         Featuring the much loved Joanna Lumley, the series will follow her as she travels to the far reaches of Japan, from the icy Siberian seas of the north to the subtropical

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Greek Odyssey episode 4

Greek Odyssey episode 4

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Greek Odyssey episode 4: This week Joanna meets the people and discovers places in the mountainous region of northern Greece. Here the hills are alive with ancient stories and legends. Some familiar, others long since gone untold. Where better to start than a climb up Mount Olympus, the country’s highest peak. Here, the ancient Greeks believed that the gods had their dwelling place, where they meted out punishments and blessings upon the mere mortals, thousands of feet below. She meets the modern gods of today, sporting athletes who taking part in the brutal challenge of the Mount Olympus marathon.  

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Greek Odyssey episode 3

Greek Odyssey episode 3

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Greek Odyssey episode 3: In this episode Joanna explores some of the fourteen hundred Greek Islands that make up this maritime nation. Each has a story to tell, often a fascinating history spanning thousands of years. Tthe Greek islands are a familiar destination for many a British holidaymaker. Yet beyond the deck chairs and white sands is a culture which has created one of the greatest seafaring nations of the world. Hitching a lift on board a shipping magnate’s yacht, Joanna’s route begins on the ancient island of Crete, where she learns about a way of life that has transcended

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Greek Odyssey episode 2

Greek Odyssey episode 2

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Greek Odyssey episode 2: Joanna is travelling across the northern most regions of Greece, through an area that has been vastly influenced by the world around it, more so than anywhere else in the country. Her route is from the western Ionian island of Corfu to the turbulent eastern border it shares with Turkey and Bulgaria. It’s a frontier-land where foreign invasion and occupation have left a fascinating legacy. The British ruled Corfu for 50 years. Joanna discovers how they left their mark with cricket, brass bands, ginger beer and the staunchest local anglophiles in “Kensington-on-sea”. Crossing to the mainland,

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Greek Odyssey episode 1

Greek Odyssey episode 1

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Greek Odyssey episode 1: Joanna begins her Greek odyssey at the Parthenon in Athens, which was created by the ancient Greeks two and a half thousand years ago. This was the dawn of western civilisation, which saw the birth of democracy, language, science and medicine. From here Joanna travels around the southern region of Greece from Athens to the Peloponnese, visiting spectacular mythical and historic sites left by this great civilisation. These were places of theatre, death, sport and religion to the Ancients and they represent the very cornerstone of this empire. The Greeks flocked to these sites and Joanna

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Joanna Lumley's India episode 3

Joanna Lumley’s India episode 3

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Joanna Lumley’s India episode 3: Joanna ends her 5,000 mile journey in the place where she was born, Srinagar in Kashmir. She starts off in the Ranthambhore National Park, where she hopes to spot a tiger in the wild. Meeting tiger conservationist Belinda Wright, Joanna witnesses the work of local NGO Tiger Watch, who are attempting to break a cycle of poaching and poverty through education. Home to over 18 million people, Delhi is a city of stark contrasts. The extreme differences are obvious when Joanna visits a homeless community – where 10,000 men live under a flyover – and

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Joanna Lumley's India episode 2

Joanna Lumley’s India episode 2

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Joanna Lumley’s India episode 2: Joanna meets the Maharaja of Dungarpur, who shows her around his lakeside palace. In stark contrast, Joanna visits a Dalit community – considered to be India’s lowest caste – in Gujarat, and hears of the everyday discrimination these people experience under India’s still deeply entrenched 3,000-year-old caste system. She later joins in a Hindu house warming ceremony, where a cow and calf are brought into the new house for luck. Braving the roads of Mumbai, Joanna takes a ride in the city’s only all-female taxi company and visits the Times of India, where her uncle

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