Tokyo to Kagoshima (19 January 1999)

Unbelievable cringe

Fergal Keane presents a collection of his ignorant, distorted, bizarre, and untruthful opinions as he travels on a train in Japan.

The scene which sums up this horrendous embarrassment the most succinctly for me is the scene in the Zen garden where Fergal Keane claims that the voiceover, which is actually giving a short history of the garden, as instructing him to be quiet. It says no such thing.

Keane seems to know nothing about Japan and barely have any interest in the place.

Utterly frightful, and what a huge waste of licence payer's money to send this person on this trip.

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