I've admired Michael Palin for half a century, dating back to his Monty Python era as one of our most witty and intelligent ...

Born in 1943 in Sheffield, Michael Palin was not from a performing household. His father was an engineer and his mother a housewife. Palin says his first taste of performance came from reciting ...

content this year. Eric Idle and John Cleese have been publicly feuding on social media, Cleese has been needling Michael ...

Sir Michael Edward Palin - actor, comedian, writer, television presenter and... Tailender? The all-round genius joined Greg James, Jimmy Anderson and Felix White for a very special episode of the ...

Comedian and broadcaster Sir Michael Palin is to have surgery to fix a "leaky valve" in his heart. The Monty Python member discovered a problem with his mitral valve - a small flap that stops ...

Michael Palin has predicted he will be the only Monty Python member to become a sir after being dubbed a knight by Prince William at Buckingham Palace. "I'll probably be the only one," he said ...

Michael Palin embarks on a 1609km odyssey, following the course of the great Tigris river. He experiences what life is like for the 40 million people who live in Iraq, explores its ancient history ...

Best-selling author and comedy legend Michael Palin is going back on the road, bringing to life his forthcoming diary, There and Back. 10 years after his last published diary, Michael unlocks volume ...

As Michael begins the final part of his journey into Iraq, he finds a local school in Baghdad and talks to the children about their lives. We’re sorry, the ...

Michael Palin undertakes another of his celebrated journeys, visiting Brazil for the first time. From the lost world of Amazonia to the buzzing modern metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, Palin explores this ...