When Did Michael Palin Make Into Iraq? How Many Countries Has Michael Palin Visited?

Michael Palin: Into Iraq is a travel documentary presented by Michael Palin and first aired in the UK in three parts on Channel 5 on 20 September, 27 September, and 4 October 2022.

In 2018, he was hired by ITN Productions to present travel documentaries commissioned by Channel 5, with journeys to North Korea and Iraq completed by 2022.

How Many Countries Has Michael Palin Visited?

Michael Palin has visited 96 countries.

Palin’s first travel documentary was episode 4 of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, entitled “Confessions of a Trainspotter”. Throughout the hour-long show, Palin humorously reminisces about his childhood hobby of train spotting while he travels throughout the UK by train from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh, and Inverness.

In 1994, Palin traveled through Ireland for the same series, entitled “Derry to Kerry”. In a quest for family roots, he attempted to trace his great-grandmother – Brita Gallagher – who set sail from Ireland 180 years ago during the Great Famine (1845–1849), bound for a new life in Burlington, New Jersey. The series is a trip along the Palin family line.

Between 1989 and 2012, Palin appeared as a presenter in a series of travel programs made for the BBC. It was after the veteran TV globetrotter Alan Whicker and journalist Miles Kington turned down presenting the first of these, Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin, that allowed Palin to present his first and subsequent travel shows. In 2018, he was hired by ITN Productions to present travel documentaries commissioned by Channel 5, with journeys to North Korea and Iraq completed by 2022.