Michael Palin "Last Day of World War One", produced for the BBC's "Timewatch" series. Palin was instrumental in setting up the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in 1993. Also in 1993, each member of Monty Python had an asteroid named after him. Palin's is Asteroid 9621 Michaelpalin. In 2003, inside the Globe a commemorative stone was placed - Palin has his own stone, to mark donors to the theatre, but it is misspelt as "Michael Pallin". The story goes that John Cleese paid for the stone, and mischievously insisted on misspelling his name. In honour of his achievements as a traveller,
Sahara (Michael Palin book) abridged version that lasts 6 hours and a difficult-to-find unabridged version that lasts 9 hours 52 minutes. Sahara (Michael Palin book) Sahara is the book that Michael Palin wrote to accompany the BBC television documentary series "Sahara with Michael Palin". This book, like the other books that Palin wrote following each of his seven trips for the BBC, consists both of his text and of many photographs to illustrate the trip. All of the pictures in this book were taken by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was part of the team who did the trip (Basil Pao also produced