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Sir Michael Palin will be joined on the Bristol Old Vic stage by Rob Brydon and Stephen Merchant when he takes part in the final two events of the seven happening at the King Street venue on the last of 2023’s six-day Slapstick festival of silent and classic screen comedy.
Monty Python legend and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin brings tales of two of the most extraordinary journeys he’s ever made to the stage this autumn in a new solo tour, 'From North Korea Into Iraq'. Kicking off in Colchester on 1 October and ending in Edinburgh on 21 October, tickets go on sale at 10am on 22 July
Michael Palin’s 1994 West End play, The Weekend, is to be adapted into a comic opera with a jazz-inflected score by Highbury Opera Theatre this Autumn, featuring Scott Stroman’s colourful music and Tamsin Collison’s witty libretto.
Last month, BBC Two’s Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime drew an average of 2.7m viewers per episode, and saw Sir Michael revisit his travel journals, diary entries and reveal his personal untold story from his most ico
A stellar line-up of the UK’s best-known entertainers will take part in an online variety show on Sunday 27 September (7.30pm start) as part of efforts to stave off the financial crisis facing Bristol’s annual Slapstick festival of screen comedy because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Michael Palin is to return to BBC Two to reflect on his landmark travel series, in a new four-part documentary entitled Michael Palin’s Travels.
The series will see Michael take the viewer back in time to encounter the places he visited - extraordinary countries and moments from Around The World In 80 Days, Pole To Pole, Full Circle and Sahara, allowing us to experience them as he did, and hear for the first-time his untold personal stories.
Michael Palin has been the unwitting victim of fake news.
It has transpired that the wide-reported story that he accidentally set his north London kitchen on fire and had to be rescued by an octogenerian neghbour was actually a joke in a lghthearted artile that Palin wrote for the latest edition of The Idler.
In the article, which was intended as a whimsical ccount of trying to take it easy after his recent heart operation Palin explain how a stray piece of kitchen roll had caught alight on his stoven:
Part of the celebration will see Michael Palin take viewers on an adventurou
To mark the paperback publication of his book Erebus: The Story of A Ship, Monty Python star and much-loved television globe-trotter Michael Palin announces a brand new one-man stage show entitled Live on Stage 2019, Michael Palin, Erebus, Python and Other Stories. It will take him to 12 venues around the UK, beginning in Bournemouth on 7th June and ending in Bath on 7th July.
Comedian Michael Palin has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours List. He is recognised for services to travel, culture and geography.
Palin, 75, who recently presented a documentary about north Korea for Channel 5 (pictured) said: "I have been a knight before with my Monty Python colleagues but I suppose this is the real thing,"
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