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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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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Raed Fares was a brave man. He kept his radio station on the air in Syria despite threats. Ordered not to play music he substituted animal noises : chickens clucking, sheep, cows, dogs…

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It’s been a while since I enjoyed the full-on delights of a big book tour. This is the crunch time for any venture, the time when you leave the cosy comforts of pre-publication expectations behind and face the verdict from the public…

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View the Michael Palin Archive display at the British Library in the ‘Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library’, until 11th November 2018…

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Michael Palin was granted unique access to North Korea for his latest show, finding eerily empty cities and surreal piped music in the streets – but some surprisingly happy people…

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Radio Times – Michael Palin reveals first trailer for North Korea travel series: “This will be the most revealing journey of my life”

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“As we sat in the airport, we played it to her, and she just cracked up,” he said, noting that there was now a “new market for us.”

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Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the actor and documentary-maker told of his experiences in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including the general lack of knowledge about the rest of the world from its citizens.

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