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Joanna Lumley's Britain

Season 1
After years traveling the globe and visiting exotic locations, Ab Fab star and national treasure Joanna Lumley is heading home. In this glorious travel documentary on BBC Select, she's visiting beautiful spots all over the UK and revealing a few family secrets along the way. From the Outer Hebrides to Cornwall, she retraces old steps, explores new places and meets inspiring people.
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  1. S1 E1 - Episode 1
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    February 1, 2021
    46min
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    In this revealing and highly personal travel documentary on BBC Select, Ab Fab legend Joanna Lumley journeys across the UK. This week she explores beautiful sites such as Beatrix Potter’s Lake District cottage before getting in touch with her gothic side in Whitby. And there's a passionate reunion with an old (fictional) flame, as she returns to the soap opera she appeared in nearly 50 years ago.
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  2. S1 E2 - Episode 2
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    February 8, 2021
    45min
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    The joyous Joanna Lumley is heading north to Scotland as her highly personal trip around Britain continues. In this revealing travel documentary on BBC Select, she's chasing shirtless, kilt-wearing Scots across the heather, before sampling, and smuggling, whisky at a famous distillery. Then it's over to Northern Ireland for an exploration of some of the beautiful locations seen in Game of Thrones.
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  3. S1 E3 - Episode 3
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    February 15, 2021
    46min
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    In the final episode, national treasure and Ab Fab star Joanna Lumley is on a whistle-stop tour of UK sites that are deeply meaningful to her. In this highly personal travel documentary on BBC Select, she ventures up beautiful Welsh mountains, picks cider apples in Somerset and takes part in a pagan ceremony in Devon. Then she's finally back home in London, but what has she learnt on her travels?
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Subtitles
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Directors
Mark Bates
Cast
Joanna Lumley
Studio
Burning Bright
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