Michael Palin | A Drink with the Idler
Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson chats to writer, actor and documentarian Michael Palin about travelling, life under lockdown, work routines and the value of silliness. Plus we hear Mark Vernon's philosophical reflections on the week.
Michael Palin found fame as a member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. His parallel career as one of the world’s bestselling travel writers began in 1989 with Around The World In Eighty Days, the companion book to the television programme of the same name. Similar success was repeated again and again (including Pole to Pole in 1992 and Sahara a decade later). In 2006, Palin published Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years, the first volume of three well-received memoirs that take the subject from the storm of Python to the global reach of his BBC travel epics. Over the years, Palin has turned his attention to other writing projects including novels and his non-fiction epic of 2018, Erebus: The Story of a Ship.
In 2020, when Covid made long journeys round the world more or less impossible, Michael Palin revisited his past adventures in a series for the BBC called Travels of a Lifetime. Michael is also an occasional contributor to the Idler magazine.
This conversation was recorded as part of the Idler's series of weekly Zoom events, A Drink with the Idler, on Thursday 29 April.
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What a wonderful, humble man! I’m not Python expert, but I warm to his demeanour and perspective.
Thank you so much Idler! Michael Palin is always a pleasure and an inspiration. Also wonderful questions from the contributors. Great show!
Só uma coisa me faz zangar com Michael, nunca veio a Portugal. 😭
Rowan, start writing now, and post a link here for us all to read. Oh, and have a word with your dad about sorting out that wallpaper.
@garethsturdy8591
3 жыл бұрын
This is the finest advice I or any of my family have ever received. If you'd like to see some of Rowan's work so far, have a look here. (Yeah, we know the mic needs a baffle but he did it on the most basic digital camera because that's all he currently owns.) kzread.info/dash/bejne/nIuaratqgpCniKg.html
@rhstravels3789
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!! As my dad said in his comment, this is reallt excellent advice. It really made my day to read this!
@JohnHirstUK
3 жыл бұрын
@@rhstravels3789 thanks for the link, guys. I’ll have a look over the weekend.
@JohnHirstUK
3 жыл бұрын
@@garethsturdy8591 Just watched the video, and loved it. And yes, the wind is an issue, though easily remedied, but what immediately stands out is the attention to the visual (already putting itself above the usual amateur YT content) . Shot brilliantly. You guys have a new fan .
But I Was So Worried? Where did it go? Edited out? :(
I thought it was Michael Heseltine for a dreadful moment!