Unqualified Endorsement

Michael Palin's Himalaya is a treat, and not just because he sings 'The Lumberjack Song' to a Bhutanese monk (although that's reason enough).

Along the way he meets the Dalai Lama, whose people tell him he was an elephant in his previous life, and will be reborn as the daughter of a rich family in the West. Later on he meets an elephant and tells it solemnly, "you will be reborn as a television presenter."

The most striking moment for me - a ship rendering yard in Bangladesh, where ships are torn down by hand by desperately poor workers. And... it's going out of business because of lower-priced Chinese competition.