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Time traveller Nigel Baxter talks to Michael Palin about Python days and his endless travels, ahead of his three Irish shows later this month
You might recall how, at some stage over the past 50 odd years, you took a journey with Michael Palin. Arguably, the journey has never really stopped. From Pole To Pole, around the New Europe, across the great oceans and up to the Himalayas, he’s been there, and before all that
there was the small matter of Monty Python and the holy grail and The Life of Brian and God knows what else. He’s been a fixture in our lives, and a welcome one. As he says himself: ‘I’ve been incredibly lucky.’ Michael’s seemingly endless travels bring him back to Ireland at the end of this month for The
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Thirty Years Tour, a stage show to mark the publication in paperback of his third and most recent volume of diaries, Travelling To Work, which covers the years 1988 to 1998. The show will have Michael, aided by archive footage, photographs and recordings, casting a long look back at what has been a truly remarkable life.
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