DESERT ISLAND DISCS: REVISITED - MICHAEL PALIN (320kbs-m4a/92mb/40mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 30th April 2023
Sheffield-born comedian, actor, writer and TV presenter Michael Palin shares his castaway choices with Roy Plomley.
Palin's theatrical career began at Oxford University where he wrote and performed with friends. David Frost saw Palin and Terry Jones perform at the Edinburgh Festival and brought all future members of Monty Python together, first as writers for satirical TV show The Frost Report.
After finishing at Oxford, Palin compered a TV comedy show in Bristol, much to his parents' disappointment, but eventually convinced the BBC to commission Monty Python's Flying Circus.
This surreal TV sketch show series starred Palin, along with John Cleese, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam.
After a bumpy start, Python became a huge influence on British comedy.
BOOK CHOICE: Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
LUXURY CHOICE: Bed
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Edward Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36: Variation IX "Nimrod" - London Symphony Orchestra
Producer: Derek Drescher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1979.
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London Symphony Orchestra - Edward Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36: Variation IX "Nimrod"
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