Pacific

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Synopsis

Starting in San Francisco where he meets up with Apple's design guru, Jony Ive, Stephen explores the Pacific Northwest. He travels up the coast to Mendocino to take part in a drug bust, before joining tree-sitters and Big Foot believers in the Oregon giant redwood forests.

Dope smoking students and edgy cabaret in Seattle give way to the stark wilderness of Alaska and an unsuccessful whale hunt with Eskimos in Barrow, the northernmost city of the USA.

On the islands of Hawaii, he meets a real life Magnum PI , goes swimming with sharks and paddles with surfers. He then sees the death of stars with astrophysicist Alex Filippenko, and the birth of new land as lava flows into the sea, creating yet more America.

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Presenter

Stephen Fry

Broadcasts

1. Sun 16 Nov 2008
   21:00
   BBC One (except Scotland)
2. Sun 16 Nov 2008
   22:20
   BBC One (Scotland only)
3. Sat 29 Nov 2008
   19:05
   BBC Two
4. Sun 21 Dec 2008
   03:50
   BBC One
5. Sat 24 Jan 2009
   03:05
   BBC One
6. Sun 15 Feb 2009
   19:00
   BBC Four