Few people are aware that he has been involved with prison charities for two decades, supporting the Prison Reform Trust, the Howard League for Penal Reform and visiting prisons, such as Parkhurst and Feltham Young Offender Institution, where he talks about his life and travels, topics that he wryly admits may not be the “ideal thing” for those in close confinement. He starred as Dennis the Peasant in Terry Gilliam's 1977 film Jabberwocky.

He is also known for his many travel documentaries with his most recent series Travels of a Lifetime looking back on his adventures from over the years.

The DVD Michael Palin on Art contains all these documentaries except for the Matisse programme.

Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt – I have got to prove myself wrong. .

[87], In 2017 the British Library acquired Palin's archive consisting of project files relating to his work, notebooks, and his personal diaries. They had earlier collaborated on the play Secrets from the BBC series Black and Blue in 1973. But the clinical nature of her downward spiral is clear: she had the kind of depression that descended “when things are really good”. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. They were also in the team of writers working for The Frost Report, whose other members included Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Monty Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle.

They were writing together for The Frost Report.

Palin married his wife, Helen, in 1966, after a holiday romance in Southwold, Suffolk. Palin said, "I've been to the Nyamgiri Hills in Orissa and seen the forces of money and power that Vedanta Resources have arrayed against a people who have occupied their land for thousands of years, who husband the forest sustainably and make no great demands on the state or the government. He later met Helen again when a friend of Michael’s at university had his girlfriend come to stay. “That, again, is probably my wife’s very practical sense.

Michael Palin is famous for his time in comedy troupe Monty Python, his travel presenting and writing. You feel the missing word is something that’s hard for a born Yorkshireman to utter: affection, passion, emotion… love? [36][37][38], Although the members of Monty Python had already encountered each other over the years, The Frost Report was the first time all the British members of Monty Python (its sixth member, Terry Gilliam, was at that time an American citizen) worked together. Michael Palin is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. What you see on screen is his nature. [16] This meeting was later fictionalised in Palin's teleplay for the 1987 BBC television drama East of Ipswich.

She's terrifically feet on the ground... much more practical. [72], In honour of his achievements as a traveller, especially rail travel, Palin has two British trains named after him.

At the Kyle of Lochalsh, Palin bought the station's long metal platform sign and is seen lugging it back to London with him.

His sister Angela was nine years older than he was. He was a member of the comedy group Monty Python. But he was, yes…” he pauses “… he had a short temper.” He realises now that it was to do with being unable to get words out: “Doesn’t matter what kind of education you have or how well you’ve been brought up if you can’t actually say what you want to say.”. Full Circle with Michael Palin is a 10-part 1997 documentary television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.Presented by Michael Palin, Full Circle was the third of a series of programmes in which Palin made and documented lengthy journeys. Gilliam v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Palin&oldid=985967129, Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award winners, Commanders of the Order of the British Empire, Fellows of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Gold Medal, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Articles with dead external links from November 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with self-published sources from August 2020, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The Weekend (2017, adapted from his 1994 stage play), 2020 National Television Awards Special Recognition Award, This page was last edited on 29 October 2020, at 00:52. “Oh, I’m sure there is,” he replies, adding that they tend to ignore what each is doing individually, however successful it is.

Yet his father Edward, a manager at a steel firm in Sheffield, was a difficult and frustrated man with a pronounced stammer (which Palin drew on in A Fish Called Wanda), inclined to sudden outbursts of temper. Helen and her sisters were staying next door.

I can even remember what was on top of the wardrobe.”.

At his wife Helen’s insistence, the Palin offspring went to local state schools and he relished the fact they were always about the house (actually three cottages knocked into one).

“My father had been educated at Cambridge and fitted in to a sort of middle-class world fairly easily. Michael Palin addresses being 'wiped out' by altitude sickness.

"Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? Cleese nominated Palin as his luxury item on Desert Island Discs, although the then presenter, Sue Lawley, insisted he could only have him stuffed. His face is pained as he explains: “It’s just unbelievable, really, the strength and aggression of imprisonment itself.” Palin’s sympathy has been honed by his far-flung expeditions when cultural and linguistic barriers “melted away quite quickly”.

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