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BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

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Comedy: Spoof

Michael Palin and Terry Jones's much-loved spoof. Spectacular tales of derring-do.

Michael Palin and Terry Jones's much-loved spoof. Spectacular tales of derring-do and derring-don't, from Tomkinson's Schooldays to Across the Andes by Frog.

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Michael Palin

Denholm Elliott

Don Henderson

Eileen Way

Louis Mansi

Charles McKeown

Terry Hughes

Terry Jones

Ripping Yarns: Series 1: Episode 5: Across the Andes by Frog

Across the Andes by Frog

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Episode 5: Across the Andes by Frog

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The epic story of one man and six frogs who tried to defy the world.

Comedy series parodying boys' own adventure tales. The epic story of one man and six frogs who tried to defy the world in the greatest gamble of all.

Set in 1920s Peru, this is the stirring story of one man and six frogs who tried to defy the world in the greatest gamble of all. Michael Palin appears alongside Denholm Elliott, but it is the frogs - the European Tree Frog, the Italian Agile Frog, the European Marsh Frogs, the Edible Frogs and the Himalayan Sleeping Frog (to be kept in reserve) - who are the stars.

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Michael Palin plays a range of characters in a series created with Terry Jones.

Michael Palin plays bizarre characters, including Eric Olthwaite and Major Errol Phipps, in a series of parodies on tales of heroism and life up north. By the Python duo of Palin and Terry Jones.

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