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The second volume of diaries from one of Britain's best-loved national treasures.

After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael Palin's life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor), and the first of his celebrated television journeys for the BBC. He co-produced, wrote and played the lead in THE MISSIONARY opposite Maggie Smith, who also appeared with him in A PRIVATE FUNCTION, written by Alan Bennett.

Such was Michael's fame in the US that he was enticed into once again hosting Saturday Night Live (with his mother making a highly successful surprise guest appearance). Over the course of these diaries he films several more journeys for television and becomes chairman of the pressure group Transport 2000. His family remains a constant as his and Helen's children enter their teens.

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Palin reminds me of Samuel Johnson: driven, intellectually formidable, and spurred on by self-reproach and the wholly irrational idea that he's not really getting on with it . . . Palin is a seriously good writer. These diaries are full of fine phrases and sharp little sketches of scenes―DAILY MAIL

This is a brisk, pithy, amusing read, teeming with the writer's inner life, crammed with high-quality observations . . . and deft ink-pen sketches of his associates―SPECTATOR

Charming and vastly entertaining―IRISH TIMES

His entries are riddled with the astute wit and generosity of spirit that characterise both his performances and his previously published writing―TIME OUT, 'Book of the Week'

It's clear why Cleese later nominated Palin as his luxury item on Desert Island Discs . . . he makes such unfailingly good company . . . this is the agreeably written story of how a former Python laid the foundation stone by which he would reinvent himself as a public institution: the People's Palin―GUARDIAN

A fascinating and wry cultural take on the 1980s . . . it's also, when added to volume one, proving to be the most beguiling and revealing of ongoing autobiographies―SUNDAY HERALD

This is the Michael Palin with whom the public has fallen in love. A man whose ordinary likeability makes us feel we know him, and that he is incapable of nastiness or an outburst of bad temper―SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

There are some fabulous and very funny snippets about Alan Bennett and Maggie Smith . . . the behind-the-scenes antics of the Pythons and their wider circle make great reading―OBSERVER

provides humour aplenty―DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to The Missionary and The Death of Stalin. He has also made several much-acclaimed travel documentaries, his journeys taking him to the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe and Brazil. His books include accounts of his journeys, two novels (Hemingway's Chair and The Truth), three volumes of diaries and Erebus, the Story of a Ship. From 2009 to 2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society. He received a BAFTA fellowship in 2013, and a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours list. He lives in London.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication date ‏ : ‎ Feb. 4 2025
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 704 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1474625851
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1474625852
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 41 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.03 x 3.81 x 19.69 cm
Book 2 of 3 ‏ : ‎ Michael Palin Diaries
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Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to The Missionary and The Death of Stalin. He has also made several much-acclaimed travel documentaries, his journeys taking him to the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe and Brazil. His books include accounts of his journeys, novels (Hemingway’s Chair and The Truth) and several volumes of diaries. From 2009 to 2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society. He received a BAFTA fellowship in 2013, and a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours list. He lives in London.

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Neil Patton
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Reviewed in France on May 25, 2015
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Delia Binder
The secret life of "A Nice Chap, Really"
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2025
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This is the second of Michael Palin's diaries, covering the eight year period when he was frequently acting in motion pictures, Monty Python kept breaking up and getting back together, and during which she attempted to stretch himself creatively with characters like the torturer Jack Lint in Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL, a non-comedic turn as a husband in the short film "The Dress", and acting alongside screen legends like Maggie Smith, and Denholm Elliott.

Palin has a reputation for being "a nice chap, generally", so it's interesting to read about the pressures and contentious times he feels. His life is not without tragedy— his sister Agatha killed herself in 1987— and not without moments of anger, especially as the UK descends into the hellscape of Margaret Thatcher and all the evil she brought in her wake. Things generally go well for him professionally and personally, though, and he makes it abundantly clear that is aware that he is among the blessed, and works to give back to the country and community at large.

The surprise success of A FISH CALLED WANDA, and how much he enjoyed working alongside his old friend and costar John Cleese, along with serious!! Actor! Kevin Klein and the delightfully young and energetic Jamie Lee Curtis, provides a satisfying climax for this book.

It ends with him taking off on the first of his now-famous travel documentaries—it's interesting to read how insecure and uncertain he feels, given how brilliant he's proven to be at it all.

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Brian G
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2010
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This book is a must for anyone that remembers Britain in the 80s - and not only Python or Palin fans. I'm not sure I was really that aware of Michael Palin's prolific output in the 80s but I now realise that I've loved pretty much everything he's ever done. His diaries make much passing comment about events outside his own world of entertainment and very often he seems to get dragged into all sorts of causes and issues of the day. I was at the Free Nelson Mandela concert and had forgotton that Palin was on the stage that day but his diary recalls all the behind the scenes shenannigans. I once slept overnight on Southwold beach before a village cricket game and the chances are that Palin was in the Sole Bay Inn that night having a pint on one of his visits to his mother. Familiar TV shows, music, movies, plays from that era and everone who was anyone at the time seem to pass through Michael's orbit although sometimes just tantilisingly out of reach. Michael Palin comes across as a very modest man with a lot of talent and a life that seems to take him constantly by surprise. A typical day can involve a jog past Michael Foot on Parliament Hill then lunch with George Harrison, a bit of writing for his next big movie followed by the parent teachers evening at his daughter's school. Many diary entries reveal a slight anxiety about the things he hasn't managed to do with his day rather than the many things he has. The only constant in the diaries are his family and the various members of Python who become increasingly fragmented as solo and splinter projects take priority. All his thoughts are captured with quiet humour and un python like straightforwardness. Even better than his first volume of diaries!

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Reviewed in Germany on March 28, 2016
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Nachdem ich Michael Palins "The Python Years" gelesen hatte war ich feudig überrascht festzustellen das dies der erste Teil einer Triologie ist. Der zweite Band ist, wie schon das erste Buch, in einer mich sehr ansprechenden Art geschrieben. Eine klare Empfehlung.

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Insightful and surprising
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2024
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To my great shame I didn't know or had forgotten about how many films Michael Palin made in the 80's, outside of the ones with Monty Python. This is a brave book in some ways as he never became the big film star he perhaps hoped for. But it's a page turner with lots of pithy observations about the business. Not uncritical and self critical either. Made me want to watch The Missionary and Private function again

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