Tonight we see the first stories from Cate Anderson, David Shankey, Rachel Bannikoff and John Thiris. The racers report from Tahiti, Sri Lanka, Canada and Cambodia.

Catherine Turner meets a Filipino politician; Tim Bryson treks to the hills of PNG; Tony Wilson meets a convicted drug dealer in a Bolivia; and Sheona McKenna meets a poor cyclo driver in Saigon.

John Thiris is in Iran where he meets Lionel; Catherine Turner goes to cricket- mad Sri Lanka and meets a boy who's a big fan of Shane Warne; Rachel Bannikoff is in Prague and Tony Wilson meets a singing cowboy poet in Idaho, USA.

Tim Bryson arrives in India and is shown the delights of Chai; Cate Anderson is in New York; Sheona McKenna is in Thailand and David Shankey is in South Africa where he investigates the attraction between inter-racial relationships.

Rachel Bannikoff meets some extraordinary ladies in St. Petersburg; Catherine Turner trails a family in Thailand; Sheona McKenna searches for "World Music" in Tuva and Tony Wilson searches for chicken in the town "Chicken", Alaska.

John Thiris is in Cyprus; David Shankey looks at Christianity in Malawi; Cate Anderson meets a fisherman in Brazil; and Tim Bryson meets a man who has travelled to Bangladesh in the hope of playing football.

Tony Wilson meets Italy's "Wheel of Fortune" host Miriana; Tim Bryson looks at an architectural initiative in Ethiopia; Sheona McKenna is in Bucharest a cleaning; and Rachel Bannikoff spends a day in Ireland.

John Thiris joins an Australian family christening in Greece; Cath Turner meets a white carpark attendant in South Africa; David Shankey joins an American couple in Turkey and Cate Anderson is in Argentina.

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Cate Anderson meets an artist in Scotland; Cath Turner is in Uganda where AIDS affects almost everyone; Sheona McKenna lives the simple life in Southern France and David Shankey goes to Belfast, Northern Ireland.

John Thiris visits a nightclub in Moscow; Tim Bryson meets a British couple living amongst the Tanzanian Masai; Tony Wilson is in Paris; and Sheona McKenna discovers why women are warned not to travel alone in Morocco.

David Shankey meets a butcher in Spain; Cath Turner is in Iceland; Rachel Bannikoff spends time with a group of falconers in Tunisia and Cate Anderson targets Monaco's filthy rich as the subject of her film.

Tim Bryson finds a Princess Diana drag show in Amsterdam; Tony Wilson visits a piggery in Israel; Cate is fitted for a man's robe in Egypt; and Rachel meets a group of squatters who have turned a building into an art-house in Germany.

David Shankey attempts to speak to Gorbachev about UFOs; Cath Turner is in a remote part of Norway; Sheona McKenna is in Ghana; and John Thiris is in Armenia where girls dare to dance to Michael Jackson music.

Tony Wilson is in Kenya; Rachel Bannikoff seeks out an ex-goddess in Kathmandu; Cate Anderson has her backup go to air when she contracts malaria and David Shankey meets a fisherman called Tattoo in Alaska.

John Thiris is in the Ivory Coast; Catherine Turner is in Mexico; Tim Bryson is in Spain where he meets the head of a winery with the oldest cellar collection in the world and Sheona McKenna meets a single mum in Vancouver.

David Shankey finds love in Reno, Nevada; Catherine Turner is in Venezuela; Sheona McKenna meets up with a scavenger in San Francisco; and Rachel Bannikoff is in China and meets some Americans who are adopting Chinese babies.

John Thiris meets people in New York who claim to be the original Israeli Hebrews; Tim Bryson is in Belize; Cate Anderson is in Thailand and Tony Wilson is in India where the "Laughing Club" is very popular with the locals.

Tim Bryson goes to Panama City; Catherine Turner is in Vanuatu; Rachel Bannikoff is in Burma and David Shankey meets mothers of missing children in Buenos Aires.

Tony Wilson is in China where he meets a young homesick acrobat; Sheona McKenna is in Tonga; John Thiris is in Cuba and Cate Anderson is in Japan where a local artist creates a sculpture of her.