Dimensions
190 x 247 x 11mm
Rarely do the words "popular" and "influential" coincide so completely as they do in the person of Michael Palin. For the past thirty years Britain's favourite ambassador has been the most consistently popular and influential character on our screens.
Perhaps you could make an argument for a more groundbreaking programme than 'Python', and possibly there have been travel programmes that have pulled in more viewers than 'Full Circle' or 'Pole To Pole', but has there been any one person who has touched both sides of that equation so successfully?
'Monty Python's Flying Circus' hit our screens in 1969 and the Michael Palin we grew to love then is the same genial bloke today. He looks more or less the same, gives of the same air of affable amiability, and carries with him the same smile. He's never been far from the screen (big or small) and has maintained a high profile, while still managing to keep a life of his own.
In this, the first book for which Michael has agreed to be interviewed, he talks about his life as a Python and the rest of his work, from its beginnings in the corridors of Oxford University to crossing the Indian Ocean in a dhow.
We discover his favourite 'Python' sketch, why he is so fascinated with Hemingway, which places have marked him the most on his globetrotting adventures, what question led him to reply, "Jeremy, I can't believe you asked me that! I'm going to get a Japanese battle sword and slice you in two", and whether he really wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
