Paul Merton In Europe

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Episode 1

Mon 11 Jan 2010, 9pm on Five

Sun 17 Jan 2010, 9pm on Fiver

Beginning in Germany, Paul meets the leader of a political movement known as the Apple Front, before enjoying a ‘chess boxing’ match in a Be…

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Episode 2

Mon 18 Jan 2010, 9pm on Five

Sun 24 Jan 2010, 9pm on Fiver

In this instalment, Paul visits an American Indian Club in the former GDR before exploring the Wunderland miniature railway in the affluent city…

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Episode 3

Mon 25 Jan 2010, 9pm on Five

Sun 31 Jan 2010, 9pm on Fiver

Paul resumes his travels in Ireland with a stop to witness the unusual sport of road bowling. Near the lunar landscape of the Burren, he drops i…

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Episode 4

Mon 1 Feb 2010, 9pm on Five

Sun 7 Feb 2010, 9pm on Fiver

Paul’s European tour continues with a trip to Italy. His first stop is the elegant northern city of Milan, famed for two things – football a…

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Episode 6

Mon 15 Feb 2010, 9pm on Five

Sun 21 Feb 2010, 9pm on Fiver

Paul Merton concludes his tour of Europe. In the final episode, Paul travels to Spain, where he encounters a former monk who has spent the last …

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Episode 1 video: Far right or far-fetched?

Paul Merton stumbles upon what looks like a neo-Nazi demonstration in Berlin and decides to talk to one of the group, who call themselves the Ap…

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Episode 1 video: Banged up abroad

Continuing his trip around Germany, Paul Merton visits the Alcatraz Hotel in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The hotel was converted from an old prison…

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Episode 1 video: Beer on tap, and in the bath

Visiting a Spa Hotel on his tour of Germany, Paul Merton checks in and immediately gets stuck into one of the more unusual treatments on offer -…

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Episode 2 video: Wunderland ist wunderbar

Paul Merton travels to Hamburg to meet twin brothers Frederik and Gerrit Braun who are the creators of Wunderland, a miniature world where they …

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Episode 2 video: What about the splinters?

In this clip, Paul Merton continues his journey around East Germany by meeting Maria Thüry and her husband Elmar, who run an unusual family bus…

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Seasoned traveller Paul Merton begins another exclusive trek for Five. Though he's staying relatively closer to home than on previous trips, the intrepid explorer discovers that there's plenty about our European neighbours that still surprises, seduces and shocks. Join him as he shows us our continent as we've never seen it before...