The Secret Mediterranean

Travel Documentary hosted by Trevor McDonald, published by ITV in 2011 - English narration


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The Secret Mediterranean
Following on from Sir Trevor McDonald's popular Secret Caribbean travelogue, this epic new series see the award-winning journalist visit some of the 21 countries spanning the three continents making up the Mediterranean Today, amid the stunning landscapes, more cultures live side by side here than anywhere else on earth. Sir Trevor McDonald explores the various countries that make up the Med, their individual cultures and traditions and looks beyond the beaches and old towns of holiday brochures to discover the truly secret Mediterranean.
 
The series gives viewers unique access to hidden, forgotten and overlooked wonders from across the entire region, from the south of France, to the Greek islands and into the north of Africa as Sir Trevor visits cities both ancient and modern, architectural and natural wonders and meets the people who live very different lives in this area.




2)  Episode Two: 
In this episode Sir Trevor visits three countries where the landscape has determined how people live there, whether it is living by an ancient lagoon, being a cowboy in southern France or turning a barren Tunisian landscape into a multi-million pound Hollywood film set. Sir Trevor heads to the beautiful Greek island of Santorini, where he visits the caves that the island's earliest dwellers dug into the side of the volcanic rock. Here he meets Kostis Psychas who turned these caves into an unusual modern hotel in the mid 1980s. Although the hotel is now some of the most expensive real estate in Greece, Kostis explains how the caves were originally very humble dwellings: "The people here didn't have the possibility to build a proper house. They didn't have materials, they didn't have wood, so the easy way to create a house was just to dig a cave."



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 * Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
 * Video Bitrate: 2033 kbps
 * Video Resolution: 720 x 416
 * Video Aspect Ratio: 1.731 (16:9)
 * Frames Per Second: 25
 * Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3)
 * Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s AC3 48000 Hz
 * Audio Streams: 2
 * Audio Languages: English
 * RunTime Per Part: 45.Mins
 * Number Of Parts: 4
 * Part Size: 700 MB
 * Encoded by: Harry65
 * Source: DVB-rip (ITV- HD)



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1)  Further Information 
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/thesecretmediterraneanwithtrevormcdonald/ep01week01/default.html