Around the World in 80 Days

Actor Michael Palin takes up the challenge to circumnavigate the globe. The intrepid traveller sets off from London's Reform Club for Venice.

Actor Michael Palin takes up the challenge to circumnavigate the globe. The intrepid traveller sets off from London's Reform Club for Venice.

Michael Palin and his film crew continue their journey in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg when they drive across Arabia in only 40 hours to make up for lost time.

Michael Palin and his film crew continue their journey, moving through India to Madras before heading off to Singapore.

Michael Palin and his film crew continue their journey, travelling from Singapore to Shanghai via Hong Kong.

Michael Palin's epic journey following in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg. Ten days behind schedule, he sails out of Shanghai on a ferry bound for Japan.

With only 22 days to go, delays, misunderstandings and a suspect bomb all conspire to impede Michael Palin's journey around the globe.

Michael Palin goes in search of the crew of the wooden dhow Al Shama who shared an emotional voyage with him across the Arabian Sea in the first of his globe-trotting travelogue series, Around the World in 80 Days. Twenty years on from that perilous crossing, he begins his quest in Dubai before heading to Mumbai and on to Mandvi in the Gujarat province where he has heard that some of his old colleagues now live.