China: Between Clouds and Dreams
Documentary series exploring the everyday lives of people throughout China, combining personal stories and natural history to create a rarely seen portrait of what life is really like in the world's most populous nation.
- 2016-2016
- 1 season
- Documentary
Documentary series exploring the everyday lives of people throughout China, combining personal stories and natural history to create a rarely seen portrait of what life is really like in the world's most populous nation.
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
A Letter from Russia
48 mins
Pupils at a Chinese school receive a letter from a school in Russia asking them to help protect the spoon-billed sandpiper. In Tibet, a trainee monk teaches environmental husbandry to nomads. A young girl fights to overcome her deafness.
Episode 2
Local Heroes
47 mins
A young monk discovers that a new dam threatens the habitat of the snow leopard. Four children investigate a mystery illness in their town. A worried mother stands up to a factory that she believes is causing cancer in local people.
Episode 3
From Death Comes Life
47 mins
Novice monk Gama discovers that a huge open cast mine threatens to contaminate the Yellow River. Ms Wu finds that a local factory is releasing poisonous hydrogen cyanide and 4 journalists highlight the plight of the spoon-billed sandpiper.
Episode 4
Silent Spring
48 mins
Novice monk Gama travels across the plateau to visit the world's largest Tibetan monastery. The four young journalists sign up schools across Asia to their campaign to save the endangered spoon-billed sandpiper.
Episode 5
For a Better Future
48 mins
Novice monk Gama prepares to begin a new life in the stunningly beautiful Wumingsi Monastery. Crusading reporter Xu comes under attack for his battle against electrofishing. Have the young journalists won the competition they entered?