Joanna Lumley's Nile

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 4: Joanna Lumley: Jewel in the Nile

  The actress embarks on the last leg of her epic river journey, flying to Juba in southern Sudan where the fragile peace process has enabled a re-emergence of the country's beauty pageants. She then heads to the Murchison Falls in Uganda and encounters some of Africa's wildlife - including hippos, rhinos and an unusual bird called a shoebill. Finally, Joanna meets explorer Cam McLeay, who takes her to the Nyungwe rainforest in Rwanda's mountains, widely considered to be the source of the Nile

• Season 1 Episode 3: Joanna Lumley: Jewel in the Nile

  The epic river journey brings the actress to Khartoum, where she watches whirling dervishes practising their devotional dancing and experiences a Sudanese beauty treatment that makes use of wood smoke. She then takes a short diversion into Ethiopia's Simien Mountains to meet an unusual group of Olympic hopefuls training in the thin air of the highlands

• Season 1 Episode 2: Joanna Lumley: Jewel in the Nile

  The actress follows the river into the deserts of Northern Sudan, where she meets the survivor of a crocodile attack and goes in search of the legendary creature. She is then introduced to the treasures of Nubia, an ancient kingdom of Africa ruled by the little-known Black Pharaohs, before visiting Sudan's capital city Khartoum, where she meets nomads who live in the remote sub-Saharan desert