Michael Palin In Wyeths World

Michael Palin heads for rural Pennsylvania and Maine to explore the extraordinary life and work of one of Americas most popular and controversial painters Andrew Wyeth Fascinated by his iconic painting Christinas World Palin goes in search of the real life stories that inspired this and Wyeths other depictions of the American landscape and its hard grafting inhabitants Tracking down the farmers friends and family featured in Wyeths magically real work Palin builds a picture of an eccentric enigmatic and driven painter He also gets a rare interview with Helga the woman who put Wyeth back in the headlines when the press discovered he had been painting her nude compulsively but secretly for 15 years