Martin Clunes: Islands of the Pacific

Martin explores French Polynesia through French baguettes and coral wine, and on a Polynesian outrigger canoe. He swims with sharks, investigates Marlon Brando's wildlife programme, and sails to the remote Marquesas to meet a local horse whisperer.

In Vanuatu, Martin climbs an active volcano and meets a tribe who worship Prince Philip. In Tonga, he meets a third gender leiti and a princess. And in Fiji, he visits an island singer and a tribe tricked out of their homeland by a British mining company.

Martin explores the legendary Galapagos Islands, getting up close to sealions, iguanas, tortoises, penguins, finches and baby sharks. He joins conservation expeditions, sees evolution in action, visits a nun, an organic farm and the site of a murder mystery.

Martin travels to Papua New Guinea to experience life among the subsistence farmers of the Trobriand Islands. He visits the volcanic isle of New Britain, where he's reminded of the fragility of island existence in the Pacific Ocean.

Martin Clunes embarks on an ocean wide adventure in search of the real Pacific, inspired by reading a book given to him when he was a child by his father about the Kon-Tiki expedition across the Pacific.

Martin travels to Guam to see the effects of invasive species on remote islands and discovers animals driven to the edge of extinction. In Palau, he learns about marine conservation and meets the endangered hawksbill turtle and the rare dugong.