Michael Palin takes part in the famous Venice Carnival, but his mask proves a little too effective as the film crew lose him in the crowds. More Palin travel adventures on BBC Worldwide.
Palin visits Uganda for some personal grooming and to see the site on the River Nile where Hemingway survived an airplane crash. More from Palin’s adventure travels on BBC Worldwide.
Michael Palin meets 101 year old Gregorio Fuentes in Havana and talks about Hemingway’s views on Castro, the political future of Cuba and, er, underpants. Brilliant clip from Palin’s travel – BBC.
Palin visits Hemingway’s old drinking haunt from his 1930s trips to Havana and tastes the author’s favourite tipple. More from Palins travelling adventures.
Heres a virtual movie of a recital of “At Lulworth Cove a Century Back” by the Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy . I have employed the visual services of a suitably rural looking Victorian English country gentleman to be my reader in this virtual movie. The poem is read in a rural English possibly county of Dorset (where Hardy came from) accent. John Keats (1795-1821) landed in Lulworth Cove Dorset in September 1820 whilst a passenger on board the Maria Crowther bound for Italy. His last night …
