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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • May 17, 1992

    Henry Root sets out for France with his wife uneasily in tow, confident of backing for his travelogue from the BBC and Richard Branson.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • May 24, 1992

    Root leaves France for Belgium, to seek a grant for his plans for a 'cultural festival' from the highest levels in Brussels.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • May 31, 1992

    Root and his wife travel to Spain to sample the bull run and flamenco, but finds more than he bargained at the beaches in Ibiza.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • June 7, 1992

    Crossing into Italy, Root inevitable assumes the Mafia and political corruption to be everywhere, but finds a very different environment when he visits La Cicciolina - who he imagines to be a singer of protest songs - in her club.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • June 14, 1992

    The Roots finish their whistlestop tour of Europe by passing through Germany where Henry experiences the unsettling experiences of communal bathing and the Beate Uhse sex shop; then finishing in Holland, where he unexpectedly tastes the 'special cake' in Amsterdam.