Michael Palin, famed maniac of the nonsensical Monty Python television skits of the 1970s, looks 10 years younger than 75. He is wiry and bouncy, neat and trim. He does not, in fact, come straight ...

Monty Python’s Michael Palin marks centenary of Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition Television traveller and Monty Python star Michael Palin has launched Silversea Expeditions’ Shackleton Centenary ...

On a June evening, 300 guests in fancy dress boarded a Royal Navy ship in Australia to dine on chicken, pies, pastries and jellies, washed down with wine, port, sherry and champagne. The captain’s ...

Michael Palin on the Erebus shipwreck resonates around the world: ’A dramatic, catastrophic failure is always a great story’ Q: Why the focus on Erebus? I always ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...

21st May 1974: From left to right, John Cleese, Neil Innes, Michael Palin and Eric Idle dressed as Arthurian knights on the set of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. (Photo by John ...