Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 3: Paris

  A whistle-stop tour of Paris, which survived World War Two unscathed because Hitler considered it 'too beautiful to bomb.' Included on the itinerary are visits to such instantly recognisable landmarks as the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, together with an expedition into the famous catacombs, a late-night shift at a brasserie, and a stint with the city's graffiti eradication squad. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 2: London

  A whistle-stop tour of London, featuring visits to such tourist attractions as Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, together with lesser-known locales - notably the macabre Necropolis Railway in Westminster Road. Other ports of call include Sotheby's, St Paul's Cathedral, Burlington Arcade and the city's financial district - along with a late-night boxing club where brokers can work off their aggression in the ring

• Season 1 Episode 1: New York

  Visits to major metropolises, beginning with New York, where Griff gets his hands dirty with the Sanitation Department, cleans the windows of a skyscraper and goes backstage at a Broadway production. Among his other ports of call are Grand Central Station, the Morgan Stanley children's hospital, and a factory founded more than 150 years ago that employs 450 people to make exactly the same thing that it first manufactured in 1853 - Steinway pianos