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Chapter 3: MDMA

What Is a Woman

Cosmic Dawn: The Real Moment of Creation

Where to Invade Next

Wild Ocean

13th
The Gatekeepers

Planet Earth III: Freshwater

Traceroute

The Harmony Game

Pan(dem)icking

Rapidly Evolving Human
Son of Hades

Inside the Brain of a Trader

Planet Earth III: Ocean

Blue Planet II Coasts

Montezuma

The Square (Al Midan)

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The Story of India: Freedom

2007 History

This episode examines the British Raj and India’s struggle for freedom. Wood reveals how in South India a global corporation came to control much of the subcontinent, and explores the magical culture of Lucknow, discovering the enigmatic Briton who helped found the freedom movement. He traces the Amritsar massacre, the rise of Gandhi and Nehru, and the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947.

Series: The Story of India

A Passage to India

2004 Nature

Travelling from K2 in Pakistan to Ladakh in India. It is a short distance as the crow flies but, due to politics, a huge loop. He passes through the Sikh city of Amritsar, with its Golden Temple, and through Shimla with its Vice Regal Lodge, Gaiety Theatre and cosy half-timbered tea-houses. He then meets the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, where the Tibetan government is in exile.

Series: Himalaya with Michael Palin