Airdate: Joanna Lumley’s Unseen Adventures

Joanna Lumley returns to ABC with a three-part series, Joanna Lumley’s Unseen Adventures, in which she travels through Japan, China, Mongolia, Siberia, India, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Venice, Haiti and Cuba.

This draws upon previous sojourns as Lumley reveals the unseen moments of how her travelogues are made and why she loves making them.

Joanna goes back as far east as Japan and across the world to Cuba in the west, to share her treasure trove of unseen stories and give viewers an insight into how her travel programs are made and why she loves to make them.

Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and outtakes, we join Joanna at home as she recalls some of her most memorable journeys and hidden gems from her travels.

The series offers viewers the chance to escape back to some incredible countries and enjoy their breathtaking scenery, with the added joy of witnessing what really happened along the way – from translation struggles, to filming with an overzealous dog and the challenges of extreme weather conditions.

“I’ve been lucky enough to visit some incredible places over the years. Travel is my passion; it is in my blood. What you eventually see on your screen takes weeks to shoot and months to edit and we didn’t always have time to show you everything we filmed. We have kept the unseen stories safe and now I can reveal this treasure trove!” Joanna Lumley.

Travel is Joanna Lumley’s passion. She has travelled the world, thousands of miles that take weeks to shoot and months to edit. Inevitably, she has never been able to show us everything – but now she is revealing unseen stories and special moments of how these journeys are made, and why she loves making them. Starting in the Far East on the frozen Japanese sea of Okhotsk, she takes us across China, Mongolia, and ends at Lake Baikal in Siberia, where she meets some amazing seals.

Produced by Burning Bright Productions. Producer, Ewen Thomson. Executive Producer, Clive Tulloh. Executive Producer, Joanna Lumley.

Sunday, 27 December, 7.40pm on ABC.