Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

This doc is a nice reflective recollection/retread of the first three of Palin's big journeys and randomly Sahara. I understand not including New Europe or Brazil (too painful and too recent respectively) and Hemingway was narratively quite different but excluding Himalaya seems odd. Watching him recount his experiences and rake through his archives is deeply pleasant and a nice reminder of how empathetic, gentle and lovely his travelogues were. However having constant talking heads ruminating on his worth and legacy seems so facile and their appearances are so scattershot that it feels like a foolish afterthought. I mean, how can you doubt that an hour in the company of Palin isn't just fundamentally watchable television?! This isn't to discredit the talking heads - you've got Attenborough fer chrissakes but a second of him and like, fifteen solid minutes with one of Derry Girls earnestly describing things you've just seen seems off.