Destination Timbuktu
Series charting a trek across the Sahara Desert. After a brief stopover in cosmopolitan Senegal, Michael endures two nights aboard the train to Bamako.
Series charting Michael Palin's trek across the Sahara Desert. Leaving the desert behind, Michael briefly savours the delights of cosmopolitan Senegal - jazz clubs, wrestling competitions, dance troupes and the queen of the Senegalese soaps, Marie-Madeleine.
Joining the so-called Bamako Express, he endures two days and nights on the train, but in the process gets to know a schoolmistress who is nothing if not forthright about the disadvantages of polygamy.
In Bamako he finds renowned kora player Toumani Diabate and delights in a master class before heading off to Dogon country.
The Dogon people have one of the most distinctive and celebrated cultures of West Africa and they nearly kill him with a combination of excessively complex origin myths, an exploding flintlock and boiling hot millet.
Celebrating the Muslim 'Tabaski' feast in the beautiful city of Djenne with a man called Pygmy and securing a passage on a cargo boat with a Norwegian missionary called Kristin, the rest of the journey down the Niger River to Timbuktu seems plain sailing, until the boat runs aground a day from its destination.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Michael Palin |
Director | John-Paul Davidson |
Series Producer | Roger Mills |
Broadcasts
- Sun 20 Oct 2002 19:00成人快手 One London
- Wed 23 Jul 2008 20:00
- Tue 12 Jan 2010 20:00
- Sun 17 Jul 2011 19:00
- Mon 18 Jul 2011 03:25
- Tue 23 Aug 2016 15:15成人快手 Two except East, Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue) & Yorkshire
- Tue 30 Jan 2018 14:00成人快手 Two Scotland, HD, Northern Ireland & England only
- Tue 30 Jan 2018 15:35成人快手 Two Wales
- Sun 25 Oct 2020 22:00
- Sat 9 Jan 2021 20:00
- Sun 10 Jan 2021 02:00
- Sat 29 Apr 2023 19:00
- Sun 30 Apr 2023 01:55
- Wed 10 Jan 2024 20:00
- Thu 11 Jan 2024 02:30