Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 4: Joanna goes to the last stage of his epic journey up the river, with flights to Juba, southern Sudan, which has enabled the fragile peace process a resurgence of beauty contests in the country. Then it goes to the Murchison Falls in Uganda and finds some of the largest African wildlife, including hippos, rhinos and […]
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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
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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
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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
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