How many seasons does Michael Palin's New Europe have?

Michael Palin's New Europe has 1 season and 7 episodes.

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Michael Palin's New Europe is available on BBC One.

Michael Palin's New Europe

Name: Michael Palin's New Europe
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-09-16
Rating: 7.625
Cast: Michael Palin

ENDED1 Seasons7 Episodes★ 7.6

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NetworkBBC One

First AiredSep 16, 2007

Last AiredOct 28, 2007

GenreDocumentary

Runtime60 min

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

Cast

Michael Palin

Self

Seasons & Episodes1 season · 7 episodes

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E1War and Peace

Sep 16, 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 the recent 'Songs from the Labyrinth' album with Sting. Michael ends this visit with a sheep sacrifice which heralds an afternoon of music and hospitality typically Balkan.

E2Eastern Delight

Sep 23, 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 Cappodocia region by balloon, he sails east towards the borders of the New Europe, which if Turkey were to join the European Union would include Iran, Iraq and Syria.

E3Wild East

Sep 30, 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 train. He finally ends up at Bran Castle in Transylvania, the ancestral home of Vlad the Impaler and alleged home of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

E4Danube to Dnieper

Oct 7, 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 Park in Hortobagy, an area which Attila the Hunwas reputed to have rampaged across, and ends up meeting a Leeds market trader who married the Ukranian prime minister's daughter.

E5Baltic Summer

Oct 14, 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 Estonia he visits a pyramid house and samples the medicinal properties of leeches. In Latvia he visits one of the most secretive places of the Communist-era, the astronomical telescope.

E6From Pole to Pole

Oct 21, 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 that country. Heading to Warsaw he visits the Palace of Culture, Stalin's controversial gift to Varsovians. Michael then makes his own personal pilgrimage to Auschwitz.

E7Journey's End

Oct 28, 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 to mime a cockerel. Travelling in a DC3, used during the Berlin airlift, he visits the island of Rugen, built by Hitler for his KDF ('Strength through Joy') programme.

About Michael Palin's New Europe

Michael Palin's New Europe is a documentary series on BBC One. The show first aired on Sep 16, 2007 and currently has 1 season and 7 episodes. Michael Palin's New Europe has ended after 1 seasons. It has a rating of 7.6/10 based on 16 votes. The cast includes Michael Palin.