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Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Michael Palin has a nostalgic look back on five of his travel adventures - Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Sahara and Himalaya.

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Let's have a look. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Let's have a look.

Now, let's have a look. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Now, let's have a look.

Let's have a look. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Let's have a look.

Let's have a look. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Let's have a look.

For three decades, I've been lucky
enough to travel the world, making - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

For three decades, I've been lucky enough to travel the...

For three decades, I've been lucky
enough to travel the world, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

For three decades, I've been lucky enough to travel the...

He has huge warmth and it's a warmth
that spreads across - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

He has huge warmth and it's a warmth that spreads acros...

He has huge warmth. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

He has huge warmth.

He has huge warmth, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

He has huge warmth,

He has huge warmth, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

He has huge warmth,

My way of looking at each journey
as something different new, special, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

My way of looking at each journey as something different new...

I'd made three travel series -
80 Days, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I'd made three travel series - 80 Days,

These are all the old passports.
At one time, I had three. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

These are all the old passports. At one time, I had three.

My first travel series,
Around The World In 80 Days, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

My first travel series, Around The World In 80 Days,

I can't deny that I was very, very
excited about travelling. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I can't deny that I was very, very excited about travel...

You've clearly forgotten the horrors
of Around The World In 80 Days - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

You've clearly forgotten the horrors of Around The Worl...

Actually, ambitious doesn't quite
do justice to the journey - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Actually, ambitious doesn't quite do justice to the jou...

I said, "There's going to
be something there, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I said, "There's going to be something there,

Well, 80 Days,
we didn't pit ourselves - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Well, 80 Days, we didn't pit ourselves

Unusual journeys require
unusual preparations. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Unusual journeys require unusual preparations.

I had not travelled,
really, in the Sahara at all, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I had not travelled, really, in the Sahara at all,

Where are we now? - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Where are we now?

Full Circle had to be as stunning,
if not more so, than the others. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Full Circle had to be as stunning, if not more so, than the ...

I was very much aware that it
would be a difficult journey to do, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I was very much aware that it would be a difficult journey t...

NARRATION: The first problem is
where to plant your pole. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

NARRATION: The first problem is where to plant your pole.

I suppose as I grew up and he wanted
to do more adventures and find out - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I suppose as I grew up and he wanted to do more adventures a...

He's someone who has been a huge
inspiration to me since - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

He's someone who has been a huge inspiration to me sinc...

Right. Where are the porters? - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Right. Where are the porters?

When I was growing up in the 1950s,
no-one travelled very far. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

When I was growing up in the 1950s, no-one travelled very fa...

Standing on the top of the world,
there's this incredible sense - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Standing on the top of the world, there's this incredib...

So suddenly to find myself being out
there doing things that, you know, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

So suddenly to find myself being out there doing things that...

The thing about travelling was - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

The thing about travelling was

There's no way of reaching
the Sahara without crossing - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

There's no way of reaching the Sahara without crossing

The idea was beautifully simple. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

The idea was beautifully simple.

Pole to Pole was just
exciting world travel. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Pole to Pole was just exciting world travel.

This is Fez, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

This epic journey would take me
through many countries - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

This epic journey would take me through many countries

Yes, a city of arches and alleyways. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Yes, a city of arches and alleyways.

The roads of Vladivostok
are full of Japanese cars and the - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

The roads of Vladivostok are full of Japanese cars and the

I don't think anyone had ever,
the BBC ever said, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I don't think anyone had ever, the BBC ever said,

It was closed because it was the
home port of the mighty - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

It was closed because it was the home port of the mighty

This is the way to see Venice. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

This is the way to see Venice.

Ah. Wahey! Campione, campione! - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Ah. Wahey! Campione, campione!

In the very heart of Magadan
is the start of the long road - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

In the very heart of Magadan is the start of the long road

This is on the Espresso Egitto,
which was the ship - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

This is on the Espresso Egitto, which was the ship

His name is Ivan Yakovlev. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

His name is Ivan Yakovlev.

These are the old uranium mines,
where men worked in grim isolation - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

These are the old uranium mines, where men worked in grim is...

The enormity of the task itself
had me worried. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

The enormity of the task itself had me worried.

"For me, the first half of this pole
to pole journey - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

"For me, the first half of this pole to pole journey

This was arriving in Alexandria - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

This was arriving in Alexandria

Going into the USSR was a real
change of gear mentally - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Going into the USSR was a real change of gear mentally

It was difficult to get permission
to film there. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

It was difficult to get permission to film there.

The thing that, that really becomes
apparent is that he wanted to not - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

The thing that, that really becomes apparent is that he want...

The Berbers are a minority
in a predominantly Arab Morocco, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

The Berbers are a minority in a predominantly Arab Morocco,

"Day 25. So we pass from Russia
to Japan. From the land - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

"Day 25. So we pass from Russia to Japan. From the land

Well, now we've crossed the High
Atlas, we are, for the first time - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Well, now we've crossed the High Atlas, we are, for the...

I mean, Japan is beautiful to
travel in because it's - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I mean, Japan is beautiful to travel in because it's

This is the Zen Buddhist temple of
Buttsuji. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

This is the Zen Buddhist temple of Buttsuji.

Once I've accepted that
nothing is going to happen, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Once I've accepted that nothing is going to happen,

My first experience of fending
for myself in a very difficult - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

My first experience of fending for myself in a very difficul...

Then, as calm is descending
for a second time, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Then, as calm is descending for a second time,

Just as I'm wondering what it
must be like to be hit so hard, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Just as I'm wondering what it must be like to be hit so...

Cairo? Cairo? OK. Here we go. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Cairo? Cairo? OK. Here we go.

How many, sir? One. One? Yes.
One way to Cairo. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

How many, sir? One. One? Yes. One way to Cairo.

But for all it's a
Zen-like tendencies, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

But for all it's a Zen-like tendencies,

Well, just as I was having lovely
dreams of breaking my day's fast, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Well, just as I was having lovely dreams of breaking my day&...

"After a swim,
I returned to the train. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

"After a swim, I returned to the train.

The issue of refugees and people,
stateless people, within the Sahara - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

The issue of refugees and people, stateless people, within t...

The thing about when you have had
a career and you're moving - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

The thing about when you have had a career and you're m...

Now there's an exodus of children
going on from Kiev. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Now there's an exodus of children going on from Kiev.

"Below me, the new high rises of
Seoul sweep across the landscape - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

"Below me, the new high rises of Seoul sweep across the...

In front of them all, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

In front of them all,

Back across the Nile to the city
centre to search out a room - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Back across the Nile to the city centre to search out a room

Hello. Hello, sir. Good evening.
Evening, sir. Do you have a room? - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Hello. Hello, sir. Good evening. Evening, sir. Do you have a...

This was a maternity hospital. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

This was a maternity hospital.

I've been around a bit,
but I've never known a more bizarre - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I've been around a bit, but I've never known a mor...

Equipment, notices, even medical
records remain here untouched. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Equipment, notices, even medical records remain here untouch...

When Michael surfed into the travel
shows, we knew it was going - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

When Michael surfed into the travel shows, we knew it was go...

"There is still confusion and debate
over the effects of the disaster. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

"There is still confusion and debate over the effects o...

This is it. This is the
end of the road. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

This is it. This is the end of the road.

Before my next camel dinner,
I retire to the bathroom - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Before my next camel dinner, I retire to the bathroom

TAPE RECORDING: There is no
hot water, - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

TAPE RECORDING: There is no hot water,

Sadly, the hot water isn't working. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Sadly, the hot water isn't working.

Then, as now, the communist
regime in North Korea could never - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Then, as now, the communist regime in North Korea could neve...

TRANSLATOR: I would love...
I wish I could die in my own house. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

TRANSLATOR: I would love... I wish I could die in my own hou...

We're moving on tomorrow,
on around the Sahara. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

We're moving on tomorrow, on around the Sahara.

Same slightly intimidating
olive green uniforms and caps - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

Same slightly intimidating olive green uniforms and caps

I find room on a ferry
leaving at midday. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

I find room on a ferry leaving at midday.

These are not documentaries which
have a view or a thesis. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

These are not documentaries which have a view or a thesis.

The change in China in what was
seven or eight years was so clear. - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

The change in China in what was seven or eight years was so ...

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Michael Palin has a nostalgic look back on five of his travel adventures - Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Sahara and Himalaya.

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Production: Firecrest Films

Genre: documentary

Year: 2020

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ImdbRating: 7.9

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Released: 04 Oct 2020

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Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n7cb