Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

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Anthony Bourdain had no reservations about a move to CNN. Shortly after concluding an eight-season stint at the helm of his popular Travel Channel series, the equally popular Emmy-winning host came to the news network searching for `Parts Unknown'. In the hourlong weekend series - similar in premise to Travel's `No Reservations' - Bourdain explores the world to, he says, `eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice ... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get'. Enticed by the opportunity to experience cultures rarely visited by American TV, such as in the Congo, Libya and Myanmar, the chef and best-selling author also takes viewers to Colombia, Peru, Morocco and, closer to home, Koreatown in Los Angeles.

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Episode 1Myanmar

With the slight relaxation of control by the government of Myanmar, Anthony Bourdain explores one of the most fabled and beautiful areas of Asia.

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Episode 2Los Angeles

Anthony Bourdain examines the meeting point of Asian, Mexican, Latino culture in modern LA.

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Episode 3Colombia

Anthony Bourdain explores the mountains, the Caribbean coast and the coca leaf growing inlands, formerly controlled by drug cartels.

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Episode 4Canada

The two funniest and most brilliant chef/restaurateurs in Canada, Joe Beef's Dave McMillan and Fred Morin, take us across Canada by rail.

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Episode 5Morocco; Tangier

Tangier is where artists like the Rolling Stones sought escape from Western moral prohibitions and the possibilities of great empty spaces. But what is it like now?

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Episode 6Libya

Anthony Bourdain explores Libya through Libyan hip-hop, the music of anti-Qaddafi rapper expats, Italian restaurants, tribal allegiances and post-war uncertainty.

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Episode 7Peru

Anthony Bourdain and world-renowned chef Eric Ripert, explore the indigenous Andes, from modern Lima back in time into pre-Columbian Peru in search of the world's best wild cocoa.

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Episode 8Congo

Anthony Bourdain looks at the Congo as one of the more industrialised powers in Africa now largely crumbled to nothingness and chaos with Tim Butcher author of Blood River.

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