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Around the World in 80 Treasures

Series 1

Episode 5: India to Sri Lanka

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC History Channel

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Documentary series in which Dan Cruickshank travels the world in search of man's greatest creations. In Calcutta, he tangles with a ten-armed naked goddess and is moved to passion in the Cave of Heavenly Maidens. Dan's on a journey of personal enlightenment and finds the key to the cosmos in the city of Jaipur, worships at the Temple of the Tooth, is blessed by an elephant and ends up in the world's greatest shrine to love, the Taj Mahal. Show less

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