A journey of 6,000 miles across China, Mongolia and Russia on some of the greatest railways of the world is bound to be the trip of a lifetime. But for Joanna Lumley it was an odyssey through her early life, as she began by retracing her childhood in Hong Kong, and ended by re-creating iconic fashion pictures that she defied the Iron Curtain to shoot in Moscow as a 20-year-old model. The journey in between is an extraordinary train trek, captured in a three-part ITV documentary called Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure. Her personal memories, along with a wickedly straight-faced sense of humour, lift this series far above the ordinary TV travelogue. Exhausted by travel and steeped in vodka, the actress sometimes breaks into surreal monologues – such as an imaginary audition for a KGB agent in a Bond movie. 'Why should I be a good person?' she growls at her reflection in the train window, as the Siberian steppes roll past.Journey captured in a three-part ITV documentaryCalled Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure
She almost causes a shaman to disgrace himself in _ after a ceremony in which he whirls himself into a trance and then, seizing a burning brand from a log fire, licks the flames. She's at it again on the shores of Lake Baikal in central _, where a local fisherman invites her to stay with his family and, after a terrifying lake crossing, plies her with vodka.