Michael Palin's New Europe
Michael Palin's New Europe
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Michael Palin's New Europe

7.7 / 10
2007
1 season
7 episodes
Documentary

Michael Palin explores European countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain.

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  • War and Peace

    1.War and Peace

    16-09-2007

    In Medjugoree Michael encounters a visionary who first started having visitations from the Virgin Mary 25 years ago. In Dubrovnik he meets with lute maestro Edin Karamazov who made...

  • Eastern Delight

    2.Eastern Delight

    23-09-2007

    Michael makes a remarkable visit to Göreme, where the rocks have been carved to form homes and some of the most remarkable churches of the early Christian era. Leaving the Cappodoc...

  • Wild East

    3.Wild East

    30-09-2007

    Michael travels from Transdniester, a breakaway state from the Republic of Moldova, to the Vaser Valley in Romania, where he joins 80 lumberjacks as they board a wood-fired steam t...

  • Danube to Dnieper

    4.Danube to Dnieper

    07-10-2007

    Michael travels by road, rail and river through Hungary and the Ukraine, ending in the Black Sea resort of Yalta. Along the way he visits Budapest's 'House of Terror', a National P...

  • Baltic Summer

    5.Baltic Summer

    14-10-2007

    Michael travels from Tallinn in the north, through Latvia, to Lithuania in the south, sailing into the Baltic from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, formerly East Prussia. In Est...

  • From Pole to Pole

    6.From Pole to Pole

    21-10-2007

    Arriving in Gdansk via canal, Michael meets former electrician Lech Walesa who formed 'Solidarity', Poland's first independent trade union, which led to the demise of communism in...

  • Journey's End

    7.Journey's End

    28-10-2007

    High in the Tatra mountains of Slovakia, Michael skins a pig, and learns how to make sausages. He then departs to Brno to visit Tibor Turba's famous mime school, where he is asked...

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