In fact, Lumley ‘‘didn’t need much persuading’’ to join any cast with Danny Macdonald and Hugh Skinner in it. Not even winter in the Scottish highlands, where Figaro was shot, could scare her off. ‘‘I can sleep, and have done, on the ground and washed out of a bucket, those sorts of things don’t scare or unnerve me.’’ We went by troop ship to Hong Kong and Malaysia,’’ she says. I was travelling halfway across the world before I was 1, because I was born in India and brought up in the Far East. Having already shot Berlin and Paris, she is about to head to Rome.
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Now she’s working on a new series called Secret Cities, which introduces viewers to the hidden wonders of the some of the world’s best beloved capitals. I did a trip around Britain, which, strangely enough, we were allowed to do.” Joanna Lumley in India, one of the stars many travel shows. Lanka, down to Mauritius, Zanzibar, and up through the Red Sea, when the pandemic happened and international travel was scuppered for a while. She had been about to set out the Silk Road, crossing Indonesia, to Singapore, Sri Her travel documentaries – she’s made 12, with several more on the way – have taken her everywhere from her birthplace in India, to Myanmar, Egypt, Siberia and Japan.Īt 75, she’s still making travel docos and shows no signs of stopping. I loved it with all my heart." Born To Travel
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It’s a sad irony then that Lumley, a seasoned traveller, has only had the chance to visit her ancestral home once. So if you’re at the seaside, digging in the sand in New Zealand, you’d be digging down almost exactly to Denmark.’’ It’s because my grandmother was born in Christchurch, but was in fact Danish. ‘‘We had a saying in my family, which I never understood, ‘digging down to Denmark’. Auckland’s Arkles Bay is named after her forebears. Lumley’s great-grandmother was the suffragist Hannah Arkle, who came with her family to live in Christchurch in the late 1800s. As if that’s not enough, how’s this for an ice breaker? She’s also practically a Kiwi.
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