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Title Compass: Joanna Lumley - The Search For Noah's Ark - Ep 2 Of 2
Published Australia : ABC, 2012
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Summary Noah's Ark and the catastrophic global flood is one of the oldest tales of all time - a story that has great meaning to Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths.In this second episode, Joanna Lumley travels from a small village church in the UK, to Turkey, India and Oman, and behind the scenes at the British Museum, as she discovers more about the account of Noah, the flood and the 'ark'.At the British Museum Joanna uncovers a Mesopotamian flood tablet with an even older, but similar story to the biblical flood. A visit to the West London Synagogue also confirms that the flood story is much older than first thought. And at the time that the tablet was written, ancient Mesopotamia had a thriving trade with the Indus Valley Civilisation.Joanna travels to Gujarat, India. At a local Hindu temple she discovers that Hindus have their own flood story and hero - Manu. So did this story travel overseas from Mesopotamia to India? If so, Joanna discovers there was another nation with a crucial role to play - the Land of Magan, today's Oman.In a boat yard outside Oman's capital, Muscat, Joanna learns that Oman played a vital part in the early design of ships - techniques that would have been used at the time of the earliest flood stories. As well as trading goods, could these ships have carried ancient stories as sailors travelled from shore to shore? Oman holds even more secrets and more answers. Could flooding of the Arabian Gulf thousands of years ago be the inspiration for Noah's story?PRODUCTION DETAILS:Executive Producer: Clive Tulloh Executive Producer, COMPASS: Rose Hesp A Burning Bright production for ITV
Event Broadcast 2014-03-16 at 18:30:00
Notes Classification: G
Subject Lumley, Joanna.
Boatbuilding.
Noah's ark.
Storytelling -- Religious aspects.
Voyages and travels.
Form Streaming video
Author Doogue, Geraldine, host
Alkindi, Mohammed, contributor
Buck, Lloyd, contributor
Ghosh, Nivedita, contributor
Lumley, Joanna, contributor
Millard, Alan, contributor
Muren, Mahmut, contributor
Neuberger, Julia, contributor
Soylemez, Mehmet, contributor
Vasa, Pulin, contributor