Presenter, author and latterday Monty Python star, Michael Palin, was this week presented with LATA’s ( Latin America Travel Association ) 2013 Media Award for his recent TV series on Brazil, and for his wider work in promoting an understanding of Latin America in the UK and elsewhere.
The series of four BBC programmes focused on the less discovered regions of this vast country and, while not as insightful or analytical as some may have wished for, successfully avoided falling into the type of cliché which plagues many such travelogues.
Sadly Go Brazil shared only a brief moment with Michael at the House of Lords event ( see photo right ) so we don’t know if he enjoyed any local wines during his Brazil trip.
Read more: http://www.latafoundation.org/newsholder/HouseofLords/
