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Dan Cruickshank reveals the most beautiful and precious things in the world

Documentary series presented by Dan Cruickshank revealing the most beautiful and precious things in the world

Series 1

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Around the World in 80 Treasures: Series 1: Episode 5: India to Sri Lanka

India to Sri Lanka

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Episode 5: India to Sri Lanka

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In Calcutta, Dan Cruickshank tangles with a ten-armed naked goddess.

Documentary series with Dan Cruickshank. In India, he tangles with a ten-armed naked goddess and is moved to passion in the Cave of Heavenly Maidens.

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.

Around the World in 80 Treasures: Series 1

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