EXTRAORDINARY RITUALS narrated by Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve narrates this three-part documentary looking at some of the most spectacular and bizarre ritual ceremonies from around the world, with episode one focusing on rites

of passage. 

 

Extraordinary Rituals explores the world's most spectacular and extreme rituals that bind people together at the most important, dramatic and emotional moments in life: birth, death, rites of passage, love and faith. From intimate ceremonies to welcome a new born child into a remote Amazonian tribe, to the millions of pilgrims who have piercings in the name of their God in Malaysia, rituals teach us how to be human and keep society together. Through colourful ceremonies of birth, marriage and death, this series reveals how we love and are loved.

 

The series will consist of three parts under the titles “Circle of Life”, “Great Gatherings” and “Changing World”. From BBC Studios’ world-renowned Natural History Unit, it will immerse the viewer in the spectacular and emotional human stories that form our global rituals.

 

Extraordinary Rituals, a 4x60’ for BBC Two, is Executive Produced by Lucy Carter for BBC Studios’s Natural History Unit. The Commissioning Editor is Craig Hunter. It will be distributed globally by BBC Worldwide.

 

Extraordinary Rituals starts on Friday, August 17 on BBC Two at 9pm.