Editing Michael Palin (section)

===Art and history===
In recent years, Palin has written and presented occasional documentary programmes about artists who interest him. The first, on [[Scottish people|Scottish]] painter [[Anne Redpath]], was ''Palin on Redpath'' in 1997. In ''The Bright Side of Life'' (2000), Palin continued on a Scottish theme, looking at the work of the [[Scottish Colourists]]. Two further programmes followed on European painters; ''Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse'' (2004) and ''Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershøi'' (2005), about the French artist [[Henri Matisse]] and [[Danes|Danish]] artist [[Vilhelm Hammershøi]] respectively. The DVD ''Michael Palin on Art'' contains all these documentaries except for the [[Henri Matisse|Matisse]] programme. In 2013, he travelled to the United States and filmed in both Maine and Pennsylvania, to write and present "Michael Palin in Wyeth World", which is about the American painter Andrew Wyeth and the people who inspired his paintings.

In November 2008, Palin presented a [[First World War]] documentary about [[Armistice Day]], 11 November 1918, when thousands of soldiers lost their lives in battle after the war had officially ended. Palin filmed on the battlefields of Northern [[France]] and [[Belgium]] for the programme, called the ''[[Last Day of World War One]]'', produced for the BBC's ''Timewatch'' series.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/timewatch/last-day-of-ww1.shtml |title=Timewatch&nbsp;– The Last Day of World War One |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=20 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020080926/http://www.bbc.co.uk/timewatch/last-day-of-ww1.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>