The last of a series of five programmes in which writers and travellers consider the pleasures and perils of their journeys. Burma
In recent years Burma has been comparatively cut off from the outside world. Now things are changing. Anne Catch-pole charts her gradual discovery of this little known land of rice fields, teak forests and pagodas, from the market of Rangoon and the ruins of Pagan to the chimney pots of Maymyo and the glory of Mandalay. Producer HELEN FRY