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Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure episode 4

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 4

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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 Asia and Europe…my most adventurous and exotic journey yet. This epic new four-part series is Joanna Lumley’s grandest and most challenging journey yet, a breath-taking odyssey from Venice to the Chinese border along the veins of the ancient Silk Road. […]

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Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure episode 3

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 3

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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 foods, inventions and cultures across Asia and Europe…my most adventurous and exotic journey yet. This epic new four-part series is Joanna Lumley’s grandest and most challenging journey yet, a breath-taking odyssey from Venice to the Chinese border along the veins

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Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure episode 2

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 2

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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 finally the uber-modern city of Baku, the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan.     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

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Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure episode 1

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 1

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Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure episode 1: Starting in Venice, Joanna sees how the travels of Venetian hero Marco Polo and Silk Road traders influenced its growth. In Albania, Joanna walks the beginning of the Via Egnatia, an ancient network that once linked the entirety of the Roman Empire.     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 Asia and Europe…my most adventurous and exotic journey yet. This epic new four-part series is Joanna Lumley’s grandest and most challenging

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The Silk Road episode 3

The Silk Road episode 3

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The Silk Road episode 3: In the final episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis continues his journey west in Iran. The first BBC documentary team to be granted entry for nearly a decade, Sam begins in the legendary city of Persepolis – heart of the first Persian Empire.     Following an ancient caravan route through Persia’s deserts, he visits a Zoroastrian temple where a holy fire has burned for 1,500 years, and Esfahan, one of the Silk Road’s architectural jewels and rival to Sam’s next destination –

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The Silk Road episode 2

The Silk Road episode 2

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The Silk Road episode 2: In the second episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis travels west to Central Asia, a part of the Silk Road often overlooked and yet the place of major innovations, big historical characters and a people – the Sogdians – whose role was pivotal to its success.     In the high mountain passes of Tajikistan, Sam meets the last survivors of that race, who once traded from the Mediterranean to the China Sea. In the Uzbek cities of Samarkand and Bukara, he discovers

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The Silk Road episode 1

The Silk Road episode 1

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The Silk Road episode 1 : Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world’s first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.     In the first episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis starts in Venice and explores how its Renaissance architecture and art has been shaped by the east and by thousands of exchanges along the route. From Venice Sam travels to China’s ancient capital, Xian. Here, Sam’s story takes him back in time

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The Story of China episode 4 - The Ming

The Story of China episode 4 – The Ming

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The Story of China episode 4 – The Ming: The tale of the Ming dynasty begins with the amazing story of Hongwu, a peasant rebel. Michael Wood explores the history of the world’s newest superpower.      The tale of one of China’s most famous dynasties begins with the amazing story of Hongwu, a peasant rebel who founded one of greatest eras in Chinese history.   The Story of China episode 4 – The Ming   The film takes us to his great capital Nanjing, with its 21 miles of walls, each brick stamped with the name of the

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The Story of China episode 3 - The Golden Age

The Story of China episode 3 – The Golden Age

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The Story of China episode 3 – The Golden Age: This episode tells the tale of what’s broadly considered China’s most creative dynasty – the Song (960-1279). Michael Wood heads to the city of Kaifeng, the greatest city in the world before the 19th century.     Here in Twin Dragon Alley, locals tell him the legend of the baby boys who became emperors. He explores the ideas and inventions that made the Song one of greatest eras in world culture, helped by China’s most famous work of art, the Kaifeng scroll, which shows the life of the city in

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The Story of China episode 2 - Silk Roads and China Ships

The Story of China episode 2 – Silk Roads and China Ships

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The Story of China episode 2 – Silk Roads and China Ships: Michael Wood tells the tale of China’s first great international age under the Tang Dynasty (618-907). From the picturesque old city of Luoyang, he travels along the Silk Road to the bazaars of central Asia and into India on the track of the Chinese monk who brought Buddhism back to China. This tale is still loved by the Chinese today and is brought to life by storytellers, films and shadow puppet plays.     Then in the backstreets and markets of Xi’an, Michael meets descendants of the traders

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