Stephen Fry in America

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 6: Pacific

  The writer and actor concludes his journey by exploring the states that touch the Pacific Ocean. He begins in San Francisco's Chinatown and crosses the Golden Gate Bridge, before travelling through the giant redwood forests of northern California and Oregon. Leaving his cab in Seattle, Washington, he flies to Kodak Island in Alaska and after that heads to the islands of Hawaii. Last in the series

• Season 1 Episode 5: Nevada

  The actor explores America's south-west, beginning with New Mexico where he meets physicists unravelling the secrets of dark matter and eco-house dwellers living 'off grid' near Santa Fe. In Arizona he stays with the Navajo in Monument Valley, travels across Lake Powell aboard a houseboat and takes a trip on a World War Two bomber. In Nevada he meets Mormon missionaries, before heading over the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Pacific Ocean

• Season 1 Episode 4: Mountains and Plains

  The writer and actor travels the entire length of the country, from the Canadian to the Mexican borders. A group of airborne patrol agents shows him the stunning mountains of Montana, before he heads south to meet a Wyoming ranching couple who share details of their close encounters with deadly animals. Other highlights of his trip down the length of the country include a belly-dancing display in Oklahoma and a musical performance in El Paso