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Exploration India

Rating:3.0 of 5Total number of episodes:6Last broadcast:01/09/2020 at 11:18
September 2020
16:00

Season 1, Episode 3 (Rural Life)

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The pupils meet a local expert on rural life in India and learn how India's extreme climate can be hazardous for subsistence farmers due to drought and flooding.
August 2020
17:00

Season 1, Episode 2 (The Ganges)

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Dua, Amalia and Nayan are in Patna. They meet a local scientist as they travel along the river, and discuss how the river is deemed sacred to Hindus and a lifeline to local people who use the river to irrigation.
10:00

Season 1, Episode 1 (Scale)

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Dua, Amalia and Nayan discover India is huge, more than ten times the size of the UK. Their first challenge is to explore Patna, the capital of Bihar in north-eastern India. It has a population of nearly two million people.
June 2020
12:00

Season 1, Episode 6 (India Tomorrow)

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Dua, Amalia and Nayan meet children who have been given a unique opportunity to escape poverty and receive a first class education. They meet Puneeth, Vijayalakshmi and James.
May 2020
13:00

Season 1, Episode 5 (Urban Life)

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Dua and Amalia explore the impact of urbanisation on Bangalore, India. They meet Chandra, a local geographer who shows them how urbanisation has engulfed villages and created narrow streets and densely built housing.
11:00

Season 1, Episode 4 (Work)

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Dua, Amalia and Nayan explore city life in Bangalore, India. Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India and it attracts young Indian people to seek work and careers there.
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