Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films from Monty Python
and Ripping Yarns to The Missionary and The Death of Stalin. He has also made several
much-acclaimed travel documentaries his journeys taking him to the North and South Poles the
Sahara Desert the Himalayas Eastern Europe and Brazil. His books include accounts of his
journeys novels (Hemingway¿s Chair and The Truth) and several volumes of diaries. From 2009 to
2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society and in 2013 he was made a BAFTA
fellow. He lives in London.
