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,
Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering is a specialist centre for speech and language therapy for the treatment of stammering, located in Pine Street, central London. Officially opened in 1993, it is a joint initiative between Whittington Health NHS Trust and the charity Action for Stammering Children (ASC). Following his role in "A Fish Called Wanda" in which he portrayed Ken, a character who stammered, as well as having mentioned in his diaries that his father stammered Michael Palin agreed for the centre to be named after him. Palin's continued support and involvement has