Michael Palin Diaries: The Python Years, 1969-1979

Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: October 2006 Pages: 696 in Publisher: W & N Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s. when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (the for the Two Ronnies . David Frost etc). Monty Python was just around the corner. This first volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed. how he. John Cleese. Graham Chapman. the two Terrys - Jones and Gilliam - and Eric Idle. came together and changed the face of itish comedy. But this is but only part of Palin's story. Here is his growing family. his home in a north London Victorian terrace. which grows as he buys the house next door and then a second at the bottom of the garden; here. too. is his solo effort - as an actor. in Three Men in a Boat. his writing endeavours (often in partnership with Terry Jones) that produces Ripping Y...

Author: Michael Palin

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Year: 2006