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00:00Otherwise you can just get up there and act it out.
00:07There's funny bits in your book of you learning to start to handle.
00:14Now that's our Chinese co-producing.
00:18China has been unbelievably helpful throughout, honestly.
00:30My name is Stanley Johnson, and 62 years ago I set off with two friends on an adventure of a lifetime,
00:44following the travels of Marco Polo.
00:49The Italian merchant left Venice in 1271 on an epic journey along the Silk Road.
00:58Marco Polo traversed some of the highest mountains in the world and crossed mighty deserts,
01:07ending in the Chinese capital, Tardif, now called Beijing.
01:14A mammoth journey covering nearly 8,000 kilometres.
01:22But back in 1961, time was against us.
01:26We cut our adventure short before we had a chance to enter modern day China.
01:34Now in my 80s, I went back to Finnish for my stuff.
01:39This time I've got a new companion, my youngest son Max.
01:49Together we're going to follow the Silk Road from the breathtaking mountains of China's far western border
01:56I mean, this view is just something else, isn't it?
01:58to the great deserts.
02:01Crossing the mighty Yellow River.
02:04That is a tremendously exciting moment.
02:07Traversing the wide-open plains of Inner Mongolia.
02:14Ending in the country's futuristic capital, Beijing.
02:22All in the footsteps of Marco Polo.