Michael Palin: Into Iraq

The latter day Palin travelogues which have both been screened in the UK on Channel 5(!) see him going to misunderstood/dangerous countries. He's on a very short leash often, and is mostly just shuttled from hotel to "event" and back again, both for safety reasons and more befitting of his age I imagine! We still see Palin doing what he's best at, being a human to other humans, and in Iraq he has fairly unvarnished responses to the wonders and horrors he encounters. There's some beautiful photography in this one, particularly the amazing Kudish celebration of spring in Akre, and his scalings of both the Great Mosque of Samarra's spiral minaret and the partially reconstructed great ziggurat of Ur. It's just so wonderful to see him still rambling about. Even if he was just in Norwich. I wonder if we'll get another?