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  • Michael Palin show criticised over statements about Balkans war

    08/30/2008 8:13:11 PM PDT · by libh8er · 21 replies · 234+ views
    The Guardian ^ | Aug 4, 2008 | Mark Sweney
    Michael Palin's New Europe has been rapped by the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee over its portrayal of the role of Serbia in the Balkan conflict in the 1990s. Palin's most recent travelogue was "political commentary rather than a travel series" and gave an inaccurate account of the war in the 1990s Balkan conflict, according to one complainant. Comments made by Palin about the destruction of a bridge at Mostar, Bosnia in 1993 came in for criticism from the complainant. Palin's comments were made in 'War and Peace', the first episode of the series, which was broadcast on BBC1 in...