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Monty Python At 50: The Self-Abasement Tapes. Image shows from L to R: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam. Copyright: BBC
Monty Python At 50: The Self-Abasement Tapes

Monty Python At 50: The Self-Abasement Tapes

  • Radio documentary
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2019
  • 5 episodes (1 series)

Michael Palin celebrates Monty Python's 50th anniversary with never-before heard sketches. Also features John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam

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Monty Python At 50: The Self-Abasement Tapes. Image shows from L to R: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam. Copyright: BBC

Key details

Genre
Documentary
Broadcast
2019
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
5 (1 series)
Features
Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam
Producers
James Peak and Andre Jacquemin
Company

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Monty Python, Michael Palin hunts down lost Python sketches.

Sketches include the infamous Fat Ignorant Bastards sketch, a Country & Western version of Terry Jones's I'm So Worried, an all-new King Arthur Song, and John Cleese press-gangs his mother into doing a free radio advert.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Wednesday 4th September 2019 at 11pm on BBC Radio 4

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