1978

S1.E1 ∙ Jaipur

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

This series of travel programs filmed across the Indian sub-continent is compiled by writer-narrator Keith Adams and is his personal view of India. In this program he explores Jaipur, present-day capital of Rajasthan.

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S1.E2 ∙ Hindi Movies

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Keith Adams talks to the directors and stars and examines the film making process in Bombay. He finds that in style, the Hindi movies are reminiscent of the Hollywood "weepies" of the 30s, complete with "impossibly good heroes and extremely bad baddies". Adam reports that some actors are signed up for 100 films at one time and spend their days rushing from one film set to another, shooting one scene here and another scene there. Producers explain to Keith Adam how they orchestrate their films for the unsophisticated audience which pays to see them. But Adam finds that with all their faults, the Hindi movies are a lively and diverting art form that seems to cater for the taste and needs of its audience. But, as he warns at the end of this amusing program, a visitor to the Bombay studios sometimes gets more than he bargained for - when he went to a studio during celebrations connected with a Hindu festival - he found himself ceremoniously plunged into a bath of red dye.

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S1.E3 ∙ Simla

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Keith Adam recalls the days of the British Raj. He visits Simla, the town in the Himalayas which the British created during the nineteenth century and turned into their summer capital.

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S1.E4 ∙ The Ganges

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Keith Adam takes viewers along the famous sacred Ganges River, beginning at Allahabad, the site for one of the greatest religious festivals in the world, the Hindu Kumbh Mela.

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S1.E5 ∙ The Moghul Emperors

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

The Moghuls, described by some historians as the most brilliant dynasty of emperors in modern times, ruled India from the 16th century to the middle of the 18th century. Keith Adam visits many of the monuments they created and recreates their colourful history.

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S1.E6 ∙ The Indian Army

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

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S1.E7 ∙ The Kulu Valley

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

The Kulu Valley, in the Middle Himalaya, is a fertile ribbon of flat land lying between high snow-capped mountains. It is an area of India, little-known to most foreigners but frequented by migratory shepherds, the Gaddis, whose itinerary to their summer pastures this film documents.

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S1.E8 ∙ Cochin

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Writer narrator Keith Adam makes a journey to the spice lands of south-western India, to the State of Kerala, a narrow strip of coastal plain.

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S1.E9 ∙ In the Footsteps of the Daniells

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Keith Adam follows in the footsteps of two remarkable Englishmen who traveled through southern India in 1792, drawing and painting the magnificent Hindu temples which are common in the region.

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S1.E10 ∙ Kipling's India

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Keith Adam takes viewers to the scene of Kipling's early childhood in Bombay and then across some of the country that the writer wrote about in his books, especially the countryside of the novel Kim.

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