Michael Palin: The Art of Travel
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Michael Palin: The Art of Travel

1989
1 season
4 episodes
Documentary

Short travelogues in which Michael Palin experiences a bygone age of rail travel in the UK.

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  • Ep 1

    1.LNER

    07-11-198910 min

    Michael Palin takes his golf clubs to St Andrews on a journey up the 'drier side of Britain', where the London North Eastern Railway's publicity department of the 1920s and 1930s p...

  • Ep 2

    2.GWR

    08-11-198910 min

    Michael Palin discovers that the Great Western Railway had the most sophisticated public relations machine of all the railway companies between the two world wars, producing high-q...

  • Ep 3

    3.Southern Railway

    09-11-198910 min

    Michael Palin embarks on an imaginary romantic assignation to Paris aboard the Golden Arrow. Promoting its new-fangled electrification through a series of colourful posters, the So...

  • Ep 4

    4.LMS

    17-11-198910 min

    Michael Palin takes an imaginary journey to Blackpool via the LMS posters of the 1920s and 1930s.

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