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Intrepid Journeys - Papua New Guinea (Pamela Stephenson Connolly)

Television – 2012

I have long been an expert in outdoor peeing — for a girl I'm pretty good, put it that way.
– Presenter Pamela Stephenson Connolly feels the need while waiting for her plane to Wewak
Waiting for a flight here is like waiting for a bus, they do eventually show up though...
– Presenter Pamela Stephenson Connolly on the long wait for a plane
Men are really the most highly decorated at this point — it seems to me that the men are the peacocks.
– Presenter Pamela Stephenson Connolly on the traditional headdresses and face paint of the men at the Sepik Crocodile Festival
You can't be too much of a bleeding heart in a country like this that is developing, but it does trouble me.
– Presenter Pamela Stephenson Connolly on the 'accepted' practise of husbands beating their wives
It must have been very hard to have been caught in the middle of a theatre of war that you didn't understand, that had nothing to do with you and seeing how important the land is here, to see it destroyed it must have been really, really difficult.
– Presenter Pamela Stephenson Connolly reflects on locals being forced to take sides in WWII conflicts between the Japanese and the Allies
Where did you get that knife? Is that your knife? That knife is as big as you are.
– Presenter Pamela Stephenson Connolly meets a local kid and his knife in Simbai
I wasn't expecting a chief to be called Richard I have to say, but that's his name.
– Presenter Pamela Stephenson Connolly is surprised by the first name of a chief