Friday, June 16, 2017

What bullet?, and up the Nile

That was some pretty amazing TV, as the ABC journalist in the Philippines gets a neat hole in the neck, and doesn't realise why until he has an x ray.  (Hey, there's a bullet in there.)  If you missed it, you should watch it.

I have also been meaning to recommend the (possibly repeated? - it's from 2010) Joanna Lumley's Nile series that been showing on ABC.   Surely no one could possibly dislike Lumley - or is it just a 50+ male thing that I believe the entire world must surely find her charming?   Anyway, her travel shows are always entertaining and enlightening, and this one where she is travelling right up to the source of the Nile shows her in some very isolated places (Sudan, parts of Ethiopia) way, way off the normal tourist track.  

Last night, where she was visiting a spring that is considered the source of the Blue Nile, and which is considered by the local Christians to be holy water with miraculous curative powers (even curing HIV, according to some type of priest!) was really remarkable.  An earlier episode featuring the old guy on a boat in the Nile who said devils lived around that particular part of the river, and could appear in any animal or human form, and had once set his boat alight, was also remarkable as an example of the grip that old religious/superstitious belief still has in that part of the world.

Good viewing.

8 comments:

not trampis said...

Sorry can't stand Lumley. Tried to watch a travel thing on Russia with my wife but found it so boring. 60+ can't see her charm for dust!

Steve said...

Proof that you're not normal, Homer. :P

not trampis said...

Blonde and I bet she is a smoker!

Steve said...

She smokes in Absolutely Fabulous, a show I didn't particularly care for, though. She was a model in the 1960's, though, and hence there's a 99% chance she was a smoker then, I would say!

not trampis said...

say no more

Steve said...

You're not keen on Julia Zemiro either (who, I am distressed to see on Wikipedia, is aged 50!)

Care to name an amusing woman on TV who you do like?

not trampis said...

Sorry I cannot think of any at the moment

Steve said...

Sounds like you could fit right in at Lakemba...:)

I find Kitty Flanaghan pretty funny too, if a bit crude at times.