Michael Palin: The Art of Travel
Short travelogues in which Michael Palin experiences a bygone age of rail travel in the UK.
Cast: Michael Palin
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Season 1
4 episodes
- 1. LNERMichael 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 promoted an industrial service alongside more familiar holiday resorts and the glamour of fast trains.CC10minNov 7, 1989
- 2. GWRMichael 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-quality publications and promotional gimmicks.CC10minNov 8, 1989
- 3. Southern RailwayMichael 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 Southern Railway provides him with a gateway to sunshine.CC10minNov 9, 1989
- 4. LMSMichael Palin takes an imaginary journey to Blackpool via the LMS posters of the 1920s and 1930s.CC10minNov 17, 1989
Michael Palin: The Art of Travel
19891 season4 episodesEnded
Short travelogues in which Michael Palin experiences a bygone age of rail travel in the UK.
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- Michael Palin
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English
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