Michael Palin amuses a full house audience

Friday 2nd October 2009, 11:25AM BST.

Michael Palin visiting Shrewsbury School to give a lecture entitled From Shrewsbury to the World: A debt to Darwin. Gordon Riley said: “He told of life in front of and behind the cameras, the conditions, climates and lifestyles. I liked the anecdote of when in a small aircraft, he landed on the ice at the North Pole, knocked on the door of a hut to the surprise of a scientist who answered like a householder in suburbia when someone drops in unexpectedly.”

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