The Mekong River with Sue Perkins

2014

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Season 1 episodes (4)

1 Episode 1

11/9/14

Sue starts her journey in Vietnam, where she sells noodle soup at a floating market, before visits the tragic Killing Fields of Cambodia.

2 Episode 2

11/16/14

As deforestation and wildlife crime strip Cambodia of its last wild places, Sue goes on a raid with the Wildlife Rapid Response Rescue team.

3 Episode 3

11/23/14

In Laos, Sue spends time with a fisherman who has set up a restaurant on the beach and learns about the controversial Xayaburi hydro electric dam.

4 Episode 4

11/30/14

Sue finds out how modernity is threatening what remains of ancient traditions and beliefs as China decides what's important for the future.

About this show

Sue Perkins travels down one of the world's greatest yet most enigmatic rivers to uncover a story of a river and a region at the point of extraordinary change. The Mekong is South East Asia's greatest river. It rises high in the Himalayas on the Tibetan Plateau, before plunging south through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

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