Michael Palin: The nice man cometh
Michael Palin gets a warm smile wherever he goes – and he's gone around the globe and from pole to pole. His transition from the charming Python to the gung-ho English explorer has been seamless, but what does he do when he gets home? And is he ever, ever nasty to anyone?

Michael Palin is a really, really, really, really, really nice man. Everybody says so. Even his wife says so. "Michael," she is reputed to have once said, "if you get any nicer I shall have to leave you." He is, it is also often said, "the nicest living Englishman". Which he would dispute, in fact. Not, it turns out, because he isn't really (x5) nice, but because there are others who are nice, too. "Gary Lineker is very nice. And so is Cliff Richard. I'm not sure I like being singled out for niceness. Terry Jones is also very nice. His wife gets terribly upset when anyone refers to me as nice. She'll call up and say: 'But my husband is perfectly nice, too'." [read more]

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