S03E02: Ferryman | Toughest Place to be a…

Duration: 59'26''

Synopsis

57-year-old Colin Window, the bridge officer of the Woolwich Ferry, travels to Dhaka in Bangladesh to train and work as a sampan ferryman on the Buriganga River.

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