Roger Law And The Chinese Curiosities

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01012012070220130219 (R4)In the first in the series, Roger Law travels to China to find out what has brought about museum fever. With new museums opening every month, he wants to know what the Chinese are displaying and why. He begins in Shanghai with a visit to an opera museum, a rather unusual shoe museum in a private house, and a security museum where all the guns of the city's gangsters are on display. It's certainly a whole new world of curiosities.

Roger begins his tour of Chinese museums in Shanghai, with a visit to an opera museum.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

01022012070320130226 (R4)In the second in his series on Chinese museums, Roger Law continues his journey through Shanghai. He finds that capitalism seems to be celebrated in some ways in the bank museum, whilst a tobacco museum doesn't allow its visitors to smoke on the premises. He finally ends up in an 'ancient sex museum', filled with the most unusual curiosities.

Roger continues his journey through Shanghai, visiting a bank museum and a tobacco museum.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

01032012070420130305 (R4)In the third in the series. Roger Law travels to Chongqing in China to see what new museums are being built in this huge and overwhelming city. He visits the Three Gorges museum to find the artefacts which were rescued from the massive dam project, and after climbing up and down the many hills in Chongqing, he finds himself in need of some help from the Chinese Traditional Medicine museum. The doctor in residence is able to give him some much needed personal attention, but does the medicine have any effect?

Roger travels to Chongqing to see what new museums are being built there.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

01042012070520130702 (R4)In the fourth in the series, Roger Law has arrived in Zhengzhou on his journey through China to see some of the many museums of the country. In this city, a major railway junction, he is amazed to discover a 'Chinese Louvre', a pyramid-shaped building housing some of the finest treasures of the country. He travels on to the Longman Grottos, where he is amazed to find more than 30,000 Buddha statues and 100,000 Buddha images in a series of caves hollowed out of the rock. He also finds himself alongside almost the same number of Chinese tourists jostling to see a part of their history.

In Zhengzhou, Roger finds a building housing some of the finest treasures of the country.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

01052012070620130312 (R4)In the final programme in the series, Roger Law concludes his journey through China looking for the very best of the country's museums, old and new. He ends up in Beijing, making a visit to the city's 'Tap Water' museum to find out what's on display. From there he heads off to find wonderful Chinese textiles and the extraordinary sound of bells in two more of the city's unusual museums, before ending up in one of the finest collections of art that can be found anywhere in the country.

Roger concludes his journey in Beijing, visiting the city's Tap Water Museum.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

020120140707In the first of a new series, Roger Law travels through China to find some unexpected corners of the country's rich and varied culture. He begins his journey in Beijing, where the film industry is now growing at an extraordinary pace. After a visit to a huge and rather empty film museum on the edge of the city, he manages to get himself on to the film lot at one of the biggest studios in the world.

Producer Mark Rickards.

Roger begins his exploration of China's bizarre and beautiful in Beijing.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

020220140708In Shanghai, Roger finds out that ultra-rich Chinese are employing butlers.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

020320140709In Kunming, some grotesque statues bring back memories of Roger's Spitting Image days.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

020420140710Roger visits two different theme parks with one thing in common, both are in miniature.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture

020520140711Roger's last museum holds a jade cabbage he has longed to see since he was a young man.

Roger Law explores some unexpected corners of China's rich and varied culture