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Holidays in the Danger Zone: Rivers'' is a five-part travel documentary on dangerous
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
s, part of the ''
Holidays in the Danger Zone'' series, produced and broadcast by
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. Written and presented by
Ben Anderson, and produced by Will Daws. It was first broadcast between 21 February - 7 March 2006, on
BBC Two.
*Episode 1:
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to:
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...
*Episode 2:
Ganges
The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river to which India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China are the riparian states." is ...
*Episode 3:
Euphrates
The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers''). Originating in Turkey, the Eup ...
*Episode 4:
The Jordan
The Jordan River or River Jordan ( ar, نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn'', he, נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, ''Nəhar hayYardēn''; syc, ܢܗܪܐ ܕܝܘܪܕܢܢ ''Nahrāʾ Yurdnan''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Shariea ...
*Episode 5:
Congo
In the series, Anderson journeys down some of the world's most dangerous rivers, exploring life and the daily struggle to exist beside rivers that have been the course of so much political unrest. Starting with the Amazon, Anderson journey takes him into the Andes, where the effects of altitude sickness at the source of the
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to:
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...
take its toll on him. Then in India, Anderson visits the rapidly melting Satopanth Glacier that feeds the Ganges, its possibly impacted with
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
over control over water rights, before visiting the
holy city of Varanasi where the massive amount of burials and cremations has caused the Ganges to become highly polluted; it is the fifth most polluted river of the world as of 2007, and a modern health hazard to everything that depends on the river for life. Anderson then goes to the Euphrates and the Jordan, both ancient rivers, steeped in history of a troubled region, before ending on the Congo which, like the nation it cuts through, has seen much violence in recent years.
See also
* ''
Holidays in the Danger Zone''
* ''
Holidays in the Axis of Evil
''Holidays in the Danger Zone: Holidays in the Axis of Evil'' is a two part travel documentary on all of the countries in U.S. President George W. Bush's "Axis of evil", part of the '' Holidays in the Danger Zone'' series, produced and broadca ...
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* ''
America Was Here''
* ''
The Violent Coast''
* ''
Meet the Stans
''Holidays in the Danger Zone: Meet the Stans'' is a four-part travel documentary on Central Asia, part of the '' Holidays in the Danger Zone'' series, produced and broadcast by BBC Correspondent (now This World). Written and presented by Simo ...
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* ''
Places That Don't Exist
''Holidays in the Danger Zone: Places That Don't Exist'' is a five-part travel documentary, part of the '' Holidays in the Danger Zone'' series, produced and broadcast by BBC This World. Written and presented by Simon Reeve, and produced by W ...
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References
External links
BBC-World's re-broadcast pageincludes a synopsis for each of the four segments.
BBC television documentaries
BBC World News shows
Documentaries about politics
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