Episode guide

Brazil with Michael Palin

Series 1

Brazil with Michael Palin

  • Out of Africa

    The well-travelled Michael Palin makes his first ever visit to Brazil, exploring the history of Portuguese explorers and examining the ways slavery shaped the country.

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  • Into Amazonia

    Travelling Python Michael Palin visits indigenous people, hears of Henry Ford's attempt to build a rubber plantation in the Amazon and is welcomed into the Wauja tribe.

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  • The Road to Rio

    Michael Palin heads to Minas Gerais to learn about Brazil's wealth of minerals, visiting an old gold mine and hearing how the profits are spent in Rio de Janeiro.

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  • The Deep South

    Michael Palin looks at the cultural diversity found within Brazil, meeting Prince Joao de Braganza and visiting the third-largest commercial aircraft manufacturer.

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Brazil

Series 1

Brazil

  • Brazil

    New to Gold. A bleak, satirical vision of the future in which a hapless clerk in an Orwellian ministry of information is plunged into a nightmare world by a trivial error.

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