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The Python Years

Diaries 1969-1979 (Volume One)

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The Python Years

By: Michael Palin
Narrated by: Michael Palin
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 Michael Palin's bestselling diaries before, during and after Monty Python.

Michael Palin's diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner . . .

Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA and Canada. As their popularity grew, so Palin relates how the group went their separate ways, later to re-form for stage shows and the celebrated films THE HOLY GRAIL and LIFE OF BRIAN. Living through the three-day week and the miners strike, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these perceptive and funny diaries.©2006 Michael Palin Entertainment & Celebrities Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV Performing Arts Funny Comedy Celebrity Entertainment Heartfelt Inspiring Feel-Good Thought-Provoking

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Critic reviews

His showbiz observations are so absorbing . . . Palin is an elegant and engaging writer
Accomplished . . . If Palin's comic genius is a given, this is a more rounded portrait of the decade which saw the Pythons become icons. Our favourite TV explorer shows us the workings of an unstoppable machine
Palin's style is so fluid, and his sincerity so palpable, that it is often easy to underestimate just how talented he is as a comedian, broadcaster and a writer . . . [the diaries] are just too good and he is too modest
Delightful and often extraordinarily funny . . . An entertaining and at times deeply moving read
If anyone writes a diary purely for the joy of it, it is Michael Palin . . . This combination of niceness, with his natural volubility, creates Palin's expansiveness
Palin's steady eye, contemplative bent and instinct for honest appraisal make him the perfect chronicler of a frequently insane period which saw the Monty Python team become the most celebrated comedians in the world
A real delight to read
A slow burn, revealing its pleasures only gradually, and allowing readers the warm glow of hindsight denied its writer . . . This book will make the perfect present for those comedy obsessives of a certain age, who will know exactly what it is long before they have unwrapped it
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Excellent diaries read by Michael Palin. most enjoyable listen about the python years. cannot wait to listen to Michael's other diaries

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I absolutely loved this audiobook by Micheal Palin. He is a real favourite of mine, in whatever he does. I highly recommend this audiobook. Micheal's voice is a treat to hear. His Monty Python years had me smiling all the way through.

Brilliant 👏

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Brilliantly narrated by Palin himself and charts the late 60’s early Python ( and pre python ) yrs from the early struggles to the huge success . It’s funny , moving , informative and a superb insight

It’s Michael Palin … need I go on ?

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I could listen to Michael Palin expounding on anything, but hearing of the years in which Python grew (as did I) and thrived was just superb. Onto the next Palin...

Great listen

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A gentle and relaxing journey through the formative years of Monty Python. Seeing behind the curtain of Michael’s creative output is fascinating. A long listen certainly but Michael is charming company throughout. Shall definitely listen to his follow-up journals.

I loved the gentle pace and packed with great details

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