A second chance to see the seven-part series in which
Michael Palin tries to copy the achievement of Jules Verne 's fictional hero, Phileas Fogg. Winner of the 1990 Royal Television Society Best Documentary award.
The Challenge. At 9.45 on a fine autumn morning, Michael Palin steps out of the Reform Club onto Pall Mall with the aim of returning to the same spot before 80 days have elapsed - having circumnavigated the globe by land and sea. But times have changed considerably since
Phileas Fogg 's day. Air travel has destroyed the scheduled passenger steamer and decimated the global rail links which were the pride of the Victorian world.
Director Roger Mills
Series producer Clem Vallance
(Michael Palin is in G B H, 10.00pm C4) • BOOK: same title, £ 15,00, from booksellers.
• TRAVEL: page 18
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888