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Great Railway Journeys

Series 4

Episode 1: India: East to West

Duration: 49 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 5 months

Ian Hislop travels through India from Kolkata, the former capital of the British Raj and present seat of the Marxist government of West Bengal, to the romantic desert forts of Rajasthan. Between journeys on a railway system that carries more than ten million passengers daily, Ian poses for photographs by the Taj Mahal, and visits the black hole in the desert where the Indians recently exploded a nuclear bomb. Show less

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