. Schofield discovers the world's only Circumcision Palace; explores the famed Blue Mosque; goes to a centre for battered women; and endures an agonising massage in a Turkish bath. He meets Oscar-winning screenwriter Feride Cicekoglu ; a hugely popular singer and TV star with an eye on the presidency, Baris Manco; and Kurdish artist Tekin Firat , whose paintings fearlessly portray his people's plight. Schofield learns the art of haggling in the Grand Bazaar, and how to make a killing on the unofficial stock market.

Schofield discovers the trials of walking tall from Bob Bruintjes , the 7ft 4in chairman of the Association for Tall People ... he hitches a ride round the canals with refuse collector Chris Mattu ... he meets Julius Vischjager , who runs his own one-man cult newspaper, The Daily Invisible ... and talks to Marte Roling , sculptress, pin-up, official royal portrait painter, and proud owner of a fighter plane she keeps in her back garden. He also examines the controversial campaign to legalise euthanasia and talks to some of the people involved. There's a visit to the world's biggest flower auction at Aalsmeer, and he samples the national fish - raw herring. Plus, the woman who receives a government grant for being a "living art form".

Schofield travels to the Austrian capital and, en route, former racing driver Niki Lauda talks about his current preoccupation, his airline. He meets Dr Andreas Rett, pioneer of music therapy, who first identified the mental and physical disorder affecting girls, Rett Syndrome; and the unconventional architect Hundertwasser, whose buildings include features like rooftop forests and sloping floors. Schofield takes a Third Man tour of the sewers with the film's location manager; visits the home of the Sachertorte, the renowned chocolate cake once at the centre of a bitter legal feud; meets the proprietor of a pet-cremation service, and a controversial artist.

Phillip Schofield meets international opera star Montserrat Caballe, who recorded, with Freddie Mercury, the hit song named after the city; bestselling crime writer Manuel Vazquez Montalban; and Miralda, a "conceptual" artist masterminding the improbable marriage of two statues, the Statue of Liberty to Christopher Columbus. He takes a crash course in "essential" Spanish over dinner with Dolly, a new-found actress friend; investigates the Spaniards' obsession with gambling; joins an atmospheric mushroom feast with market traders; and has a moonlight encounter with Strel-la, queen of the witches.

Phillip Schofield's visit to Czechoslovakia's capital comes two years after the Velvet Revolution and finds Stalin's statue replaced by a giant metronome and socialist lecture halls taken over by bingo. America's famed Pinkerton Police have been drafted in to help patrol the city streets, and Schofield meets the only woman officer in Czechoslovakia; and he joins a family of Romany entertainers at a colourful gypsy festival. He visits an astronomers' summer camp; a unique telephone helpline; and the studios of brilliant animator JifiBarta, who brings objects such as mannequins to life. He samples therapeutic beer in the nearby spa town of Karlovy Vary, takes an eventful drive in the national car - the Skoda, and works off his frustrations by knocking a nail into his boss's head.

Phillip Schofield visits Europe's most westerly capital during this year's turbulent meeting of the International Whaling Commission as Iceland campaigned to resume commercial whaling. He talks to whaling fleet-owner Kristjan Loftsson , Greenpeace campaigner Ami Finnsson , and goes on the first whale safari. He is attacked by Arctic terns on the golf course, crosses Europe's biggest glacier in a satellite-guided jeep, and awakens a geyser with a box full of soap. He engages in conversation with rock star Bubbi Morthens and Bjork Gudmundsdottir , lead singer of the country's biggest rock export, the Sugarcubes, in the world's most northerly curry house; and talks to film director Hrafn Gunnlaugsson who makes "cod westerns" featuring fantasy re-creations of the Viking settlers. And finally, Schofield meets Sveinbjorn Beinteinsson , high priest of the pagan religion Asatru, and Erla, an elf expert, who has mapped the city sites where she believes elves, dwarves and gnomes reside.