Hey Brit Guppies salam, just thought I’d give you guys advance notice, tonight (Sunday) October 3rd. BBC 1 is showing the documentry Himalaya and it’s first episode is in Pakistan.
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm 60mins
North by Northwest
New series. Intrepid traveller Michael Palin embarks on his most challenging adventure yet.
His journey through the North West Frontier province of Pakistan, starts on the Khyber Pass and ends five miles from K2 on the Pakistan/China border.
From the Khyber, Michael Palin passes through Darra, where they make working facsimiles of every gun on earth. He visits a street dentist in Peshwar but chickens out when he sees the drill. He goes bull racing with a Pakistani aristocrat and is within a horn’s tip of being trampled to death, and finally crosses over the Lowari Pass into the buffer state of Chitral.
He discovers that Chitral is the birth place of free-style Polo and that in a few days Chitral play the annual needle match with rivals Gilgit on the high Shandur Pass, 3,810 metres.
With man and horse fighting for breath in the oxygen starved atmosphere, Michael enjoys a fierce and volatile encounter, very far removed from the polite chukkas at Hurlingham and Cowdray Park.
When the match is over the crowds go back down. But Michael heads north to the land of ice and snow in a military helicopter to KT, the second highest mountain in the world.
Also Channel 4 is showing the Pakistani movie Khamosh Pani
C4, Sun 3 Oct at 12.15am
Khamosh Pani, by first-time director Sabiha Sumar, is a sensitive and courageous film examining the events of 1947, when the Indian sub-continent was partitioned into India and Pakistan. Khamosh Pani is the story of a Sikh woman who is forced to become a Muslim and renamed Ayesha. By 1979, Ayesha, a middle-aged widow, is living with her teenage son, Saleem (Aamir Malik), in a village near the Indian border. When President General Zia-ul-Haq comes to power, Pakistan’s rule is taken over by Islamic law and Ayesha’s village gripped by fundamentalists. Helpless, she watches her son being swept away by militant religious fervour. Tensions escalate when Sikh pilgrims from India visit the village, forcing Ayesha to confront her tragic past.
This award-winning film shows a mature restraint and objectivity, presenting an unusual look at life in Pakistan and includes an outstanding performance by Indian actress Kirron Kher (for which she won Best Actress Award 2002 at the Festival of Locarno).