EASTER SUNDAY APRIL 9
MARTIN CLUNES: ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC
Clunes spans the Pacific
Screening: Living, 7.30pm
Actor Martin Clunes clearly has a thing about islands. This three-part travelogue follows his previous shows , and . (Did no one tell him that New Zealand is an archipelago?) Here, he crosses the Pacific, learning its stories in a spirit of respect and, occasionally, bemusement. The series wrapped just as the pandemic was beginning, meaning that post-production was delayed – and it had to be explained in the script why no one is wearing a mask. But the delay had a stranger implication. Clunes visited the people of the village of Yakel in Vanuatu, who revere Prince Philip as a. Elsewhere, it’s baguettes and coral wine in French Polynesia, the wildlife of the Galápagos and an encounter with the “third gender” in Tonga.
