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Article: Michael Palin's New Europe
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- Supply Management
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- October 4, 2007
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[TV]
Michael Palin's New Europe
BBC1,
Sundays, 9pm
*****
Sunday evenings bring the next instalment of Michael Palin's travels, this time exploring the countries that were, for much of his life, hidden behind the Iron Curtain.
I have travelled to many of these nations, for both business and pleasure, and hoped to gain useful insights from the programme that would benefit me in future visits.
The first episode had Michael Palin travelling across the Baltic states of the former Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia) before moving to the insular Albania. He had a keen focus on talking to the local people about their history, architecture, landscape and way of life. I learnt some ...