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Joanna Lumley's India

Joanna Lumley travels back to the country that she came from to celebrate the great nation that it is today. A year older than Independent India itself, Joanna was born in India into the last days of The Raj and India was home to both sides of her family for several generations. Celebrating its beauty, wildlife, people, culture, history, modernity and absolute diversity, Joanna's journey takes her on an exploration of India's past, present and future, drawing on her own connections and experiences and learning from stories of others.

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Joanna Lumley
Self - Presenter

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Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Joanna travels from the very south of the country all the way to the foothills of the Himalayas. In Madurai she explores the dazzling Meenakshi temple. At the Western Ghats, Joanna meets old friend Robin Brown who has spent half his life travelling through India on his beloved motorbike. After perusing the jewellery markets of Hyderbad, Joanna explores the world's biggest film studio complex for new movie industry, Tollywood. And her journey ends four hundred miles north of Calcutta, in Sikkim, at the foot of the Himalayas.

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