Over the Sea and Near Away

There's no room in Hong Kong to keep cows, and it's difficult to get milk across the border from China.

– From the narration, in Hong Kong

We see children enthusiastically eating oranges, bread, and New Zealand mutton.

– Narrator Peter Gwynne, on Tokyo

We couldn't help thinking as we left: what a lot of wool they could use ... if they could get it.

– From the narration, on departing Shanghai

The homes of some our customers in the Philippines, with their four and five car garages, look like Hollywood stage sets.

– Narrator Peter Gwynne, on Manilla

The new architecture is vigorous, beautiful and perfectly suited to climate and city. An extraordinary city where recently two women were burned as witches and pirates boarded a ship in the harbour and made off with the cargo ...

– Narrator Peter Gwynne, on Manilla