Airdate: Walking the Nile. Bumped: Life on the Dole
UK explorer Levison Wood attempts a 6760km expedition to walk the length of the River Nile.
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Next week Nine begins UK documentary series Walking the Nile.
This four-part series follows made for Channel 4 features British explorer Levison Wood’s 6760km expedition to walk the length of the River Nile.
His drama filled nine-month, seven million step journey takes him through jungles, savannah, deserts, cities and war zones -no-one has ever completed its entire length on foot.
The filming of Episode One hit the headlines last year when tragedy struck the expedition and a journalist covering Levison’s epic journey tragically lost his life.Â
This aired in the UK in January.
Episode One:
Lev and his local guide Boston follow the river from the jungles of Rwanda, through Tanzania’s most remote and lawless regions and into Uganda.
They celebrate by the shores of Lake Bisongu and enter the ‘Badlands’ of Tanzania – an area riddled with gun smuggling routes – only to be robbed by a gang of highwaymen.
Further down the river, they’re invited as VIPs to a traditional Tanzanian and given a heroes’ welcome in the capital Kampala.
Leaving Kampala, Lev and Boston are the first outsiders to be allowed to trek through the wilds of the Murchison Falls National Park, home to one of the highest concentrations of crocs and hippos on the planet but also ruthless poachers desperate for ivory and bushmeat.
It’s so dangerous Lev and Boston are escorted by armed park rangers, but even with rangers to carry their kit and extra water, nothing can prepare them for the extreme danger and the tragic consequences that lies ahead.
Sydney & Brisbane
Wednesday
7:30pm RBT
8:30pm Walking the Nile
9:40pm Life on the Dole
Melbourne, Adelaide & Perth
Thursday
7:30pm RBT
8:30pm Walking the Nile
9:40pm Life on the Dole
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4 Responses
Sweet. One for the PVR.
A nature doco at 8:30? I don’t think so. And why is Life On the Dole still on the main channel?
LotD is still on Nine because it is rating badly (4th) but not abysmally. And the nature doco is on because it’s all Nine have available. They are filling in around the State of Origin at the moment, RR is winding up and don’t want to launch a new lineup till after game 3.
They also don’t want to launch new shows until after June 30. That’s the way budgets stack up.