| Full Circle with Michael Palin | |
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| Written by | Michael Palin |
| Directed by | Roger Mills |
| Presented by | Michael Palin |
| Theme music composer | Peter Howell |
| Composer | Elizabeth Parker |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Editor | Alex Richardson |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
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| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 31 August – 9 November 1997 |
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| Pole to Pole with Michael Palin Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure | |
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Full Circle with Michael Palin is a 10-part 1997 documentary television series, first broadcast on BBC One in 1997. Presented by Michael Palin, Full Circle was the third of a series of programmes in which Palin made and documented lengthy journeys. The first was Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin, a 7-part series first broadcast in 1989, and the second was Pole to Pole with Michael Palin, an 8-part series first broadcast in 1992.
The series documented a 245-day, 50,000-mile (80,000 km) trip taken by Palin and a film crew around the rim of the Pacific Ocean in 1995 and 1996, beginning on the Diomede Islands between Alaska and Russia in the Bering Strait.[1] The intent was to make the full anti-clockwise trip around the Pacific Rim and end up back on the Diomede Islands, but due to rough weather, he was unable to actually set foot back on the Islands again at the end of his journey, bringing him within two miles of completing the full circle. Palin travelled through Russia, Japan, South Korea (they were not allowed to pass through North Korea), China, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, United States, and Canada.
Palin also authored a companion book based upon the series, which was published concurrently with its first broadcast. This book contained both Palin's text and many pictures by Basil Pao, the stills photographer on the team. Pao also produced a separate book of the photographs he took during the journey, Full Circle – The Photographs, a large coffee-table style book printed on glossy paper.