{"id":8516,"date":"2019-05-07T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2019-05-07T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:52:25","slug":"martin-clunes-island-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/05\/07\/martin-clunes-island-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Clunes: Island Of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cEveryone has an image of America: a land of big shops, bright lights and asphalt highways stretching right across the continent. But there is another America \u2013 and I set out to find it.<\/em>\u201d ~ Martin Clunes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Clunes embarks on an epic journey around the coast of America to discover what life is like on the surrounding islands for Islands of America, a new documentary series that starts on ITV Choice (DStv 123) on Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 20:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Buffalo Pictures MARTIN CLUNES : ISLANDS OF AMERICA Tuesday 5th February 2019 on ITV Pictured: Martin Clunes partakes in a traditional greeting with Anakala Pilipo Solatorio in the lush Halawa Valley, Molokai Hawaii Episode 1 The first port of call on Martin\u00d5s journey was the lush, tropical Hawaii. His exploration looked beyond Hawaii\u00d5s image as a tourist paradise, crammed with sun-kissed beaches and world class surfing, and into the havoc wreaked by advancing lava fields and smoking craters. Leaving Hawaii Martin flew 2,500 miles north to the islands of Alaska, where the contrast couldn\u00d5t have been more extreme, from tropical rain forests to snow-fringed glaciers; from crowded beaches to some of America<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Following the successful series on the Islands of Britain and Islands of Australia, Clunes has developed a fascination for the unique quality and appeal of island life, often in the most remote places on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time he sets off on a 16 000-kilometre journey, from the west to the east, to explore the vast swathe of islands which are scattered beyond America\u2019s shores. He travels from Hawaii\u2019s islands of fire and Alaska\u2019s islands of snow and ice, to the playgrounds of presidents off the New England coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clunes says: \u201cI wanted to look beyond corporate America and discover the other United States, out past the mainland margins, and what life is like on these unique and diverse islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn this island journey I meet men and women who\u2019ve lived through many of nature\u2019s worst extremes. And it seems one thing they all share is a profound wisdom about these challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the four-part series Clunes visits Hawaii, Molokai, Alaska, the San Juan Islands, the Channel Islands National Park, Avery Island which sits inland from the Gulf of Mexico, Delacroix Island, the colourful Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, the Sea Islands along the coast of Georgia, Sapelo Island, the quiet island backwater of Chincoteague, Manhattan Island, Ellis Island, Coney Island and Martha\u2019s Vineyard, playground for the wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final place on Clunes\u2019s epic island journey is Maine, America\u2019s most easterly state, with hundreds of islands off its coast. The Isle au Haut is his last island stop where Clunes meets the children from the island\u2019s primary school to discover what life is like for them on this isolated community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clunes concludes: \u201cIt seems right to finish my journey here with these children \u2013 they\u2019re the future of this island. And seeing them enjoy the simple pleasures of island life will stay with me for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cEveryone has an image of America: a land of big shops, bright lights and asphalt highways stretching right across the continent. But there is another America \u2013 and I set out to find it.\u201d ~ Martin Clunes Martin Clunes embarks on an epic journey around the coast of America to discover what life is like… Continue reading Martin Clunes: Island Of America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-itv-choice","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}