North Korea Journal Audiobook (Free)

Presented by Penguin.

THE BOOK At the rear of THE HIT CHANNEL 5 DOCUMENTARY

A glimpse of existence inside the world’s most secretive nation, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer.

In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent fourteen days in the notoriously secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a cut-off property without internet or phone sign, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where in fact the towns about North Korea Journal have gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious underground train stations. His causing documentary for Route 5 was widely acclaimed.

Now he shares his day-by-day diary of his visit, in which he describes not only what he found – and his fleeting sights of what the authorities didn’t wish him to see – but recounts the conversations he had using the country’s inhabitants, talks candidly on the subject of his encounters with officialdom, and information his musings about a property wholly unlike any other he has ever visited – one which inspires fascination and fear in equal measure.

Created with Palin’s trademark warmth and wit, and illustrated with beautiful color photographs throughout, the journal offers a uncommon insight in to the North Korea in back of the headlines.