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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11

MARTIN CLUNES: ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC, SERIES 2

Doc Martin goes native, again

Screening: Living, 7.30pm Following his Islands of Britain, Australia and America, the English actor-presenter’s tour of the Pacific was cut short by the pandemic in February 2020, as he was about to board a plane for Papua New Guinea. Rather than end the project there, he looped back and made a season two, which he described recently as “very different” to the first season. “Because of the logistics of Papua New Guinea, we were far more embedded.

We lived in this village on the Trobriand Islands, where they built us huts and we lived with them for thethan

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