Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure | show | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Joanna Lumley sets off on one of her most epic voyages yet, a journey through the world’s greatest spice continents to | dHNfWlJQaEIxeU4tSE0

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00:00This year, the country of over 1.3 billion people is celebrating 70 years of independence.

00:14I'm going to travel 5,000 miles to some of the more remote and unexpected corners of

00:19this vast nation.

00:21What is this?

00:24From the desert camels of Rajasthan, to the transsexuals of Calcutta, sometimes I shall

00:37be walking in my family's footsteps, glimpsing the opulent splendor of India's royal past.

00:47Mirrors on the ceiling in case I wanted to look at myself.

00:51I'll encounter the suffering endured by India's untouchables.

00:55They poured kerosene on his body and just burnt him alive.

00:59Gatecrash a Hindu housewarming, and experience the kaleidoscope of contradiction that makes

01:08modern India so captivating.

01:10Lovely.

01:11Oh my gosh.

01:12Look at that colour.

01:13You are very, very kind.

01:14Thank you, sir.

01:15Welcome to India.

01:16The first of my three journeys through this vast subcontinent will take me 1,500 miles.

01:40From the very south, through the mountains of the Western Ghats, to the Islamic city

01:45of Hyderabad, the former imperial capital Calcutta, and ending in the foothills of the

01:51Himalayas in Sikkim, where 90 years ago my grandfather, Colonel Leslie Ware, was stationed.