Full Circle with Michael Palin

BBC Four

7:40 PM to 8:30 PM

Saturday 31 October

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The explorer finds that China is a world of contrasts and contradictions as he treks toward the Vietnam border via Shanghai and the Yangtze river. From the Bavarian-style hotel at Qingdao, once occupied by Chairman Mao, he tackles the 6,293 steps of China's holiest mountain, sees the world's largest engineering project and visits the ancient Miao tribe in the mountains of the south-west