Synopsis
Sue Perkins arrives in Varanasi, India's most intense, extraordinary and breath-taking city.
- Programme: The Ganges with Sue Perkins
- Series: 1
- Episode: 2
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Religious Education | Hinduism | Life and Death | Beliefs about death and the afterlife
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