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Brazil with Michael Palin

Michael Palin travels around Brazil, from Amazonia to Rio, from the North East to the Deep South, to find out what makes this vast country tick.

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Michael Palin
Self - Narrator
Susie Valerio
English dub for all females characters
Carolina Ferraz
Self

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Out of Africa

57 mins

Michael Palin starts his visit of Brazil, the last subcontinent he never visited, in the populous North east, where its colonial history started. It remains the most African and racially mixed part of the country, which absorbed 40% of the African slave export. The plantations having faded, it sunk in the ranking of riches. Michael enjoys the exuberant, public lifestyle, especially the beach-culture and exotic cooking, and discusses the Brazilian soul as well as differences within the huge country.

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Awards

  • 2013 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Sound: Factual - nominated

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