Around The World In 90 Days

English | 13 x 24 minutes

Producer: First Freedom Productions in association with All Film.
Availability: Worldwide all media (ex. USA, UK & Eire).



January 4th, 1999, Southampton, England. At the Ocean Terminal in the city's docks the P&O liner 'Oriana' is making final preparations before she sails the next day. 'Oriana' is the largest ship in P&O Cruise's fleet and she is about to undertake a three month round the world cruise.

She will sail south-westwards across the Atlantic to Rio de Janeiro, across the south Atlantic to Cape Town, around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean to Singapore. She will continue southward via Bali and Freemantle, around south Australia to Sidney and across the Pacific to Honolulu and Vancouver. She will proceed southward again to San Francisco, through the Panama canal and back across the Atlantic arriving in Southampton on April 5th.

During the voyage she will visit 22 ports in 18 countries. Most ports which Oriana visits such as Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Singapore, Sydney, Vancouver and San Francisco are interesting in themselves.

But they also give the ships's passengers - who come from countries all over the world to take part in this 'once in a lifetime journey - an opportunity to visit sites.

This series of 13 travel programmes was shot during the world cruise. Using a mixture of fly-on-the-wall and documentary techniques the programmes will follow passengers and crew - when they go ashore and through their eyes so to speak, we will marvel at some of the most beautiful islands, the most wondrous sights and the most exciting cities on earth.

We also join them as they take part in some of the modest exciting sports and entertainment that the world has to offer - from 'undersea walking' in Mauritius through absailing in Cape Town to surfing off Kuta Beach in Bali and sky-diving in New Zealand.

The ship itself isn't forgotten - how do you feed 1800 people each and every night for 3 months, what's it like to be the Captain of such a huge vessel, negotiating its way through the Panama Canal?

First Freedom has gained unprecedented access to the sides of cruising that passengers never see, from the bridge to the engine room. And to the 800 men and women who crew this 'Superliner.

These ingredients - taken together - make for a fascinating, entertaining and informative series of travel programmes.

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