“If you go down to the Sichuan woods, you’re sure of a big surprise…” No, it is not a new species, exactly; but you might chance upon a famous British TV presenter seemingly cosplaying – as a giant panda. This unsettling mise-en-scène occurs during Ben Fogle’s Chinese Adventure, available on Now TV, at the Shenshuping Panda Base, a remote, government-run wildlife unit in Wolong, Sichuan province, where pandas are born and raised before being released to repopulate the mountains. Trouble is, the...
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August 10, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Why Ben Fogle thinks he discovered the ‘real’ China in new TV series
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