Edinburgh show for best-selling author and comedy legend Michael Palin on UK tour this autumn
Monty Python star set for Edinburgh show as part of upcoming UK tour
Best-selling author and comedy legend Michael Palin is going back on the road, with a new 13 date UK tour this autumn, including a show at the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh.
There and Back - The Diary Tour 2024, will bring to life Palin’s upcoming diary ‘There and Back’, due to be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson on September 26.
The tour begins on September 15 in Norwich and then travels to cities across the UK including visiting the Scottish Capital on October 6, before culminating at London’s Cadogan Hall on October 15, with tickets now on sale.
Ten years since his last published diary, Michael unlocks volume four of his life and times, from 1999 to 2009. As the centuries change and Michael heads into middle age, he’s busier than ever.
In this new show, with the help of rarely seen photos and video, Michael brings these momentous times to life as he talks through this latest diary to take us backstage on this most productive decade of his life, whilst always, in the background, showing us the wider world, one of infinite possibilities and new and unimagined dangers.
Announcing the tour, Michael Palin said: “In There and Back - The Diary Tour 2024, I’ll bring to life the fourth collection of my diaries and the first to be released for 10 years. Lots of fun as I go through the Noughties, and some dark times too. I constantly surprise myself with the sheer amount I took on.”
In this latest diary, the Monty Python star takes on four new travel series, and a wide variety of documentaries from art and artists to the last day of the First World War.
He watches his family grow and expand at a time of ominous new threats and dangers. The Twin Towers fall, bombs blast London, banks collapse, whole economies teeter on the brink. Tony Blair offers hope with the Good Friday agreement, then embroils us in Iraq.
Michael enters his 60s, and finds grown-up responsibilities come his way. By the end of this diary, he’s in his first year as President of the Royal Geographical Society.
His diary reflects his constant struggle against routine and repetition, and his irresistible and often nerve-shredding attraction to new challenges. Some work, some don’t, but by the end of this volume he’s reached the retirement age of 65. And he’s planning a new journey.
Michael Palin, There and Back - The Diary Tour 2024, at Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, October 6.