Michael Palin donates 22 years' worth of notebooks to British Library
Public will soon be able to peruse more than 50 of Palin’s notebooks in which many Monty Python sketches were written
They are the pages where an unwilling messiah Brian, Mr Creosote, the Ministry of Silly Walks, a football team of philosophers and a dead parrot were all born. Now, more than 50 notebooks of original sketches and ideas for Monty Python have been donated to the British Library by Michael Palin.
The public will now be able to freely peruse Palin’s archive of writings from 1965 to 1987, including the books
