[TV] Michael Palins New Europe

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Michael Palin explores a New Europe
In his latest television series Michael Palin has travelled throughout Eastern Europe to explore how the region and its people have developed since the fall of the Berlin Wall almost two decades ago.
New Europe, as the title suggests, is about the vigour and vitality of that half of Europe which has, for most of my lifetime been seen as grey, secretive and unwelcoming.

I am happy to report that almost everywhere we went in the 20 countries of our journey, there was evidence that people were pleased to see us, anxious to talk to us and full of stories to tell.

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War and Peace

Countries visited: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania
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.

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Eastern Delight
Countries visited: Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey

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.

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Episode 3 - Wild East

Countries visited: Trans-Dniester, Romania
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.

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From Pole to Pole

Country visited: Poland
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.

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High in the Tatra mountains of Slovakia Michael learns how to make sausages before heading off to Turba's famous mime school in Brno, the Czech Republic's second city.

In the spa town of Karlovy Vary he has a mud bath with Miss World whilst in Prague a pedalo ride under the famous Charles Bridge with sultry chanteuse Bara, leads to a discussion on why the Germans are less than loved.

In Terezin, a Jewish ghetto during the Second World War, survivor Lisa Mikova tells Michael the story of how the Nazis made a propaganda film to convince the International Red Cross that there was no such thing as The Final Solution. Entering the former East Germany, the GDR, in Dresden, he learns from engineering student Felix that despite Germany's unification there is still a wall inside people's heads.

A paddle steamer down the Elba takes Michael to the famous porcelain manufacturing city of Meissen, where he gets a crash course in German toilet design, whilst in Leipzig, cabaret artist Gunter Bohnke, vividly portrays the evil of the Stasi, the state security police, who spied on a quarter of its citizens. At the vast industrial complex of Bitterfeld Michael is given the 'stinky tour' with Hans Zimmermann, a genial Santa Claus look alike eco-warrior and another victim of the Stasi's oppression.

Near the Polish border Michael ends up in another relic of the old GDR - driving a Russian made T55 tank that was the deployed at the frontline of the Cold War.

In the capital Berlin a theatre show in a stretched Trabant illustrates the difference in attitudes that persist between the two halves of the now united city. [AD,S]