After a passing reference to the coming release of his latest film Time Bandits, which he co-wrote with director and fellow Python Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin demonstrates the winning personality that won him a reputation as the 'nice' Python, who even your Grandma would like. Shelly Rohde's questioning focuses largely on Palin's lifelong love of trains, from his childhood enthusiasm for trainspotting to his more recent passion for the model variety. His appearance in the 1980 BBC series Great Railways of the World, he reveals, won him more fan letters than any of his previous work. It was that experience that would set him on the path to his second career as a host of multiple TV travelogues - and ultimately to something like national treasure status.

Elsewhere on the show, we meet a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and a man who eats football shirts 'for both pleasure and profit'. Prolific comedy actor Rita Webb talks about her passions for food, bargain-hunting and fishing, as well as, touchingly, of her great love for her partner, Al Jeffery ('Jeffie)'. Fellow thespian Peter Bull introduces Aloysius, a teddy bear currently enjoying fame of his own as a co-star in the hit Granada series Brideshead Revisited.

Webb died of cancer, aged 77, just two months after this programme was broadcast.