Michael Palin: Hemingway Adventure (with Great Railway Journeys)

Release	Oct 7, 2008
Video	Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio	English: Dolby Digital 2.0 English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles	English
Studio	BBC Home Video
Year	1999
Genre	Documentary, TV

Monty Python's Michael Palin follows up the success of Pole to Pole, treading in the far-flung footsteps of one of this century's most celebrated writers, and Palin's hero, Ernest Hemingway. Depressive, disaster-prone, alcoholic and much married, Hemingway is viewed through the various locations he visited and wrote about in his novels. Comparing modern-day locations with rare archive footage featuring Hemingway, Palin follows him through Cuba, Spain, Kenya and many other places. Palin's brand of light-hearted curiosity is very much in evidence as he looks at the novelist's obsession with the bullfight, passion for reckless driving and, of course, his literature.

Great Railway Journeys: CONFESSIONS OF A TRAIN SPOTTER (London to the Highlands of Scotland) - Michael Palin spent much of his boyhood train-spotting on Sheffield Midland Station. In his first televised travel adventure, Palin travels from Euston Station in London, to Kyle of Lochalsh in Scotland, and passes along routes steeped in rail history. Along the way, he visits the historic towns of York and Edinburgh, before crossing the Forth Bridge en route for the Highland Line to Inverness. His trip spans the development of the train engine, from a ride on the famous Flying Scotsman steam locomotive to a privileged place in the cab of the British Rail Inter-City 125.

Great Railway Journeys: DERRY TO KERRY - Palin's second Great Railway Journey takes him from the ancient walled city of Londonderry to the most western tip of Ireland. He travels his "family line" as he attempts to trace his great grandmother who left Ireland for the USA over 150 years ago. His trip through a still war-torn Northern Ireland takes him to Belfast before heading south to Dublin, the capital of the Irish Republic, and on to Wexford, Waterford, the little village of Buttevant and finally Kerry's Dingle Bay, the most western point in Ireland.