The shows, to air in September, will feature “never-before-released material from the Monty Python sound archives”…

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Things are supposed to quieten down as you get older, but my 77th year could not have begun more noisily…

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Very excited as Erebus comes out in paperback. From today the icy, watery, toe-tinglingly thrilling Polar adventure will be available in a new exciting shape. Small, perfectly formed to fit in your pocket, and much much cheaper. Erebus The Story Of A Ship – the perfect way to cool down as the heat returns…

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76 last Sunday. 76 sounds an awful lot, but the best way to deal with the march of time is to fall in step with it and stop trying to pretend you’re 18 again…

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Visited Terry recently and read some of the material we’d written for Dr Fegg’s Encyclopeadia Of All World Knowledge. He can say very little these days…

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Be sure to try and catch my latest BBC appeal to help with the work at The Michael Palin Stammering Centre…

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“In Glencoe, Hamish was helping us with certain structural problems like who would build the Bridge of Death over this terrifying gorge…”

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Michael Palin in North Korea (Channel 5) has been nominated for Best Documentary Series, with Inside The Foreign Office (BBC Two), Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation (BBC One) and Why Does Everyone Hate The English? (History)…

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I shall be taking a new show on the road for a short summer tour starting in Bournemouth on June 7th. It coincides with the paperback release of my most recent book Erebus, The Story Of A Ship…

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Just as I thought that, after a very busy year, 2018 was going quietly, I hear I am to be elevated from a Knight who says ‘Ni!’ to a knight of the realm…

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