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Searching for Italy 2022 episode 4 - London

Searching for Italy 2022 episode 4 – London

Searching for Italy 2022 episode 4 – London: Stanley Tucci sets out to explore how Italian immigration has transformed the food scene in his adopted hometown of London. London is a culinary mecca, where Italian food from every region gets a chance to shine.         The burrata is so creamy, the pasta so fresh, that it may […]

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Searching for Italy 2022 episode 3 - Umbria

Searching for Italy 2022 episode 3 – Umbria

Searching for Italy 2022 episode 3 – Umbria: Stanley Tucci visits Umbria, nicknamed the green heart of Italy. While this small, predominantly rural region lives in the shadow of its more glamorous neighbor, Tuscany, Umbria has an ancient history that predates even the Romans. With the highest consumption of pork per capita in Italy, Umbria is a carnivore’s dream. From

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Searching for Italy 2022 episode 2 - Piedmont

Searching for Italy 2022 episode 2 – Piedmont

Searching for Italy 2022 episode 2 – Piedmont: Stanley Tucci visits the region that made the dream of a unified Italy a reality. Piedmont boasts a refined French heritage and peasant traditions from the Middle Ages. Once the engine room of Italian industrialisation, Piedmont is now spearheading a slow food revolution. Between reimagined risotto and the elusive white truffle, Stanley

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Searching for Italy 2022 episode 1 - Veneto

Searching for Italy 2022 episode 1 – Veneto

Searching for Italy 2022 episode 1 – Veneto: Stanley Tucci visits the Veneto, home to the ‘floating city’ of Venice. Once the centre of a world-trading empire, Tucci explores the ingenuity of the Venetians, who have embraced the unexpected delights and challenges of the lagoon, reaping the benefits of Veneto’s fertile land. Veneto has a fascinating food culture due to

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Simon Reeve's South America episode 5

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 5

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 5: The last leg of Simon’s journey through South America takes him from Chile’s Atacama Desert right down to Tierra Del Fuego, the most southerly inhabited place on Earth. The Atacama, one of the driest places on the planet, has as little as 1mm of rain per year, Simon discovers shocking evidence of human pollution.

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Simon Reeve's South America episode 4

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 4

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 4: Simon travels through three of the world’s most extreme environments: the salt flats of Bolivia, the Brazilian Pantanal and Paraguay’s Chaco Forest. In Bolivia, Simon meets a family who makes a living carving salt from the vast white expanse of the Uyuni salt flats, so huge it is said to be visible from the

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Simon Reeve's South America episode 3

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 3

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 3: Simon travels through the Andes mountains, visiting Peru and Bolivia. Simon starts his journey at the world-famous ruins of Machu Picchu, one of the glories of the ancient Inca civilization. But since the arrival of Europeans, the indigenous people of the Andes – the descendants of the Inca – have suffered horribly, and to

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Simon Reeve's South America episode 2

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 2

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 2: Simon visits Brazil, the biggest country on the continent. He starts in one of the remotest regions of the Amazon with the Waiapi people. They have managed to cling onto their traditional way of life, which is under threat from logging and mining interests. The tribal leaders argue that preserving the forest is not

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Simon Reeve's South America episode 1

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 1

Simon Reeve’s South America episode 1: Simon Reeve travels through the remote and little-visited north east of South America, from Venezuela to French Guiana. Simon Reeve journeys through the remote and little-visited northeast of the continent, from the spectacular tabletop mountain Mount Roraima in Venezuela through Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.   This section of the earth’s crust is known

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Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure episode 4

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 4

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 4: Joanna Lumley travels across the stunning Central Asian states of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, visiting a Silk Road citadel and attending a high-society wedding.     Joanna Lumley embarks on a 7000-mile journey following the route of the legendary Silk Road, that throughout history helped spread all manner of foods, inventions and cultures across

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Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure episode 3

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 3

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 3: Joanna’s journey takes her to Iran. She meets people eager to share the innovations of the Persian civilisation which, thanks to the Silk Road, spread far and wide.     Joanna Lumley embarks on a 7000-mile journey following the route of the legendary Silk Road, that throughout history helped spread all manner of

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Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure episode 2

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 2

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 2: Joanna follows the Silk Road from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, and across the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Azerbaijan. From the brash, booming seaside resort of Batumi, on Georgia’s Black Sea, Joanna travels across the heart of the Caucasus region; through stunning mountain settlements, romantic Silk Road cities, vineyards, and

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