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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 best-selling 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.

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I have consumed vast amounts of Python over the years from autobiographies and documentaries to books and beyond and thought there was nothing more to possibly know. How wrong could I have been. Utterly absorbing and a must for any Python completist.

Palin - never knowingly underfed!

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I started with Travelling to Work, amazing then listened to Full Circle and was waiting for the extended Python Years and have just finished. So interesting on so many levels, the relationship between the "Pythons" how that changes, the making of the films which makes me remember all the memorable scenes and how often I am reminded how apt they are in life. As I get older I often find myself in the Holy Grail scene with the King and prince and trying to get the guards to do as they are told......

Just downloaded the next 29 hours of the eighties and cannot wait to get started.

If you like to listen this is a must.

Riveting

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Such a fantastic man. Interesting throughout. A Perfect relaxing listen. And only half a sheckle!

Simply superb.

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These diaries are so good. The mix of history and his story are in many ways mine too. I remember some of the landmarks like power cuts albeit a vague childhood memory and by the time Life of Brian came out I was a full blown python fan and great admirer of Michael’s work. A confirmed atheist by then seeing the church get so hot and bothered was much more a confirmation of no god than anything in the film. The film has stood the test of time. If I have a criticism it is that I have had to purchase both films and will have to keep on buying the diaries but then they are good value for money so I shan’t resent it.

Such a joy to listen to.

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Very enjoyable - not 'just a diary' . Michael Pali n comes over as a companiable guy leading an interesting life.

remarkably gripping

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Michael is generous throughout this gentle book, he features his comrades with warmth and respect.

The Inside Story of a Python.

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Immensely entertaining and well read by Mr P - bit like a warm hug! Having lived through the 60’s and 70’s brings back some if not distant memories of those times - highly recommended

Fantastic

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Very interesting read. I was looking for something thorough and glad I came across this. It lasted the whole month and I never found it boring. I've always enjoyed watching/listening to Michael. Going to start the next one now :)

Glad I discovered this!

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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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Credit to Michael Palin for providing the insight and narrating his own diaries. He provides a background to Monty Python that only an insider could bring. He seems to chafe a little against the nice middle class man he is commonly described to be, but that’s exactly how he comes across. A Hampstead socialist with a lot of unacknowledged advantage - meetings at the BBC that would be beyond most - and many descriptions of meals - “beef with an unexceptional sauce”. The person who comes through in the diaries is a decent chap who had the opportunity to make us laugh. And he did it very well.

A nice middle-class man

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