Best-selling creator and comedy legend Michael Palin goes again on the highway, with a brand new 13 date UK tour this autumn. There and Back – The Diary Tour 2024 will convey to life Palin’s upcoming Diary (known as There and Back, revealed by Orion on 26 September) .
The tour begins on 15th September in Norwich after which travels to cities throughout the UK earlier than culminating at London’s Cadogan Hall on 15th October. Tickets are on sale from 24th May at TheMichaelPalin.com.
10 years since his final revealed diary, Michael unlocks quantity 4 of his life and occasions, from 1999 to 2009. As the centuries change and Michael heads into center age, he’s busier than ever. In this new present, with the assistance of hardly ever seen photographs and video, Michael brings these momentous occasions to life as he talks by means of this newest Diary to take us backstage on this best decade of his life, while at all times, within the background, displaying us the broader world, one in every of infinite potentialities and new and unimagined risks.
He takes on 4 new journey sequence, and all kinds of documentaries from artwork and artists to the final day of the First World War. He watches his household develop and develop at a time of ominous new threats and risks. The Twin Towers fall, bombs blast London, banks collapse, entire economies teeter on the brink. Tony Blair gives hope with the Good Friday settlement, then embroils us in Iraq.
Michael enters his 60s, and finds grown-up tasks come his approach. By the tip of this diary, he’s in his first 12 months as President of the Royal Geographical Society. His diary displays his fixed battle towards routine and repetition, and his irresistible and infrequently nerve-shredding attraction to new challenges. Some work, some don’t, however by the tip of this quantity he’s reached the retirement age of 65. And he’s planning a brand new journey.
Announcing the tour, Michael Palin says: “In There and Back – The Diary Tour 2024, I’ll convey to life the fourth assortment of my diaries and the primary to be launched for 10 years. Lots of enjoyable as I’m going by means of the Noughties, and a few darkish occasions too.
I continuously shock myself with the sheer quantity I took on.
MICHAEL PALIN: THERE AND BACK – THE DIARY TOUR 2024
| DATE | CITY | VENUE |
| fifteenth September | Norwich | Theatre Royal |
| 18th September | Guildford | G Live |
| twenty first September | Brighton | Theatre Royal |
| twenty third September | Southsea | Kings Theatre |
| twenty fifth September | Cambridge | Corn Exchange |
| twenty eighth September | Coventry | Warwick Arts Centre |
| third October | York | Grand Opera House |
| 4th October | Bradford | The Alhambra |
| sixth October | Edinburgh | Queen’s Hall |
| seventh October | Dundee | Whitehall Theatre |
| eighth October | Glasgow | Pavilion Theatre |
| thirteenth October | Chesterfield | Winding Wheel |
| fifteenth October | London | Cadogan Hall |
