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Sir Michael Palin has spoken movingly about how his grief has transformed two years after losing his wife Helen, saying he now feels her spirit around him rather than the acute pain of loss. The ...
Sir Michael Palin has said he feels less grief now two years on from the death of his wife. The 82-year-old Monty Python star announced in May 2023 that his wife of 57 years, Helen Gibbins, had died ...
Sir Michael Palin still "imagines" his late wife Helen is with him, two years after her death.
Michael Palin felt BBC ‘wanted to interfere’ before he left for Channel 5 - The comedy actor and presenter made a series of travel documentaries for the BBC from 1989 until 2012.
From Monty Python to WWI: Michael Palin's new book resurrects his long-lost great uncle. The prolific actor, comedian, writer and producer has created the silly and the sublime.
Michael Palin knows what makes a good diary. “Rich, well-observed, gossipy, analytical, funny, introspective, bitter and celebratory” – that’s his conclusion about the art of the genre ...
Sir Michael Palin learned about music from late DJ John Peel. The Monty Python comic and the legendary broadcaster used to ...
Michael Palin is being asked to reminisce on the many discomforting tasks he's been obliged to perform by Roger Mills, the mischief-making Oxford classicist with whom he has travelled the world.
Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin steps into the larger-than-life world of Ernest Hemingway in a two-part series airing Wednesday, May 3 and Wednesday, May 10, 2000 from 9 to 11 p.m. (Check local ...
Michael Palin, co-founder of Monty Python and host of classic travelogue Around The World In 80 Days, tells Deadline how he ended up making a film in North Korea despite thinking “for a long ...
In 1969, the British comedy writer and performer Michael Palin, then building a career out of being extremely silly, did something utterly sensible: He quit his 40-cigarettes-a-day smoking habit ...