And now for something completely brilliant

To tie in with Michael Palin: Travels

Of A Lifetime, a new series starting ton tonight (BBC2, 8pm) in which the genial Mo Monty Python star looks back on his epic journeys, the BBC is making thre three of his best-loved series available to stream. st Around The World In 80 Days is th the show that started it all in 1989, and sees Palin follow in the footsteps of Jule Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg. In 1992’s

Pole To Pole he travels from the North Pole to the South Pole via Scandinavia, the Sovi Soviet Union, Europe and Africa. Finally, Hem Hemingway’s Adventure, from 1999, sees him retrace his literary hero Ernest Hem Hemingway’s journeys through the US, Eur Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.

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