Michael Palin: The Art of Travel

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  • Premiered: Nov 1989
  • Episodes: 4
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
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Season 1
Air date
Nov 07, 1989
Michael Palin takes an imaginary journey to Blackpool via the LMS posters of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Southern Railway
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 08, 1989
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 Southern Railway provides him with a gateway to sunshine.
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LNER
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 09, 1989
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 .. show full overview
1x4 Show finale
GWR
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 13, 1989
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-quality publications and promotional gimmicks.

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