Some pieces to bang your head on. Yeah. We have a GrAnd Piano if youd like to entertain us. A GrAnd Piano . Yes. I can open it, but i couldnt play it. John laughs Michael Palin, welcome to This cultural life. Thank you. You were born in sheffield in 1943. What are your earliest memories of childhood, Home Life . Um, i think it was shopping in the Ration Book era. Um, And i can remember going with my mother to get. I think we were given free Orange Juice at that time. Really, This must have been. I must have been three or four. And watching it being filled up And hAnded over. Your father was an engineer in the sheffield steel industry. Yeah. What Sort Of man was he . What was he like . He was. He was quite a difficult man in a way. He was a little Bit Sort of. Could be quite cantankerous. And i think a lot of This went down to the fact he had a stammer all his life. He was a man with a good sense of humour, but probably unable to telljokes because of the stammer. So i think there was a
I always feel slightly depressed by beautiful vistas, you know i mean . Ah, the storybook kingdom of granada. One of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain. And one of the most beautiful. Granada is tucked against the Sierra Nevada mountains of andalucia in Southern Spain. Its not like barcelona. Its not like saint sebastian. It aint madrid. Any reasonable person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, theyre going to fall in love. Otherwise, theres something deeply wrong with you. Spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. And in the very best possible way. This is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. Also anarchy. This is where devout Catholicism Mixes with surrealism, Modernist Cuisine with traditional tapa. Christianity and islam traded places, shared space. The effects of influences of all those things are right here to see. You can almost look back through time and through the mists of history,
I always feel slightly depressed by beautiful vistas, you know i mean . Ah, the storybook kingdom of granada. One of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain. And one of the most beautiful. Granada is tucked against the Sierra Nevada mountains of andalucia in Southern Spain. Its not like barcelona. Its not like saint sebastian. It aint madrid. Any reasonable person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, theyre going to fall in love. Otherwise, theres something deeply wrong with you. Spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. And in the very best possible way. This is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. Also anarchy. This is where devout Catholicism Mixes with surrealism, Modernist Cuisine with traditional tapa. Christianity and islam traded places, shared space. The effects of influences of all those things are right here to see. You can almost look back through time and through the mists of history,
I always feel slightly depressed by beautiful vistas, you know i mean . Ah, the storybook kingdom of granada. One of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain. And one of the most beautiful. Granada is tucked against the Sierra Nevada mountains of andalucia in Southern Spain. Its not like barcelona. Its not like saint sebastian. It aint madrid. Any reasonable person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, theyre going to fall in love. Otherwise, theres something deeply wrong with you. Spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. And in the very best possible way. This is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. Also anarchy. This is where devout Catholicism Mixes with surrealism, Modernist Cuisine with traditional tapa. Christianity and islam traded places, shared space. The effects of influences of all those things are right here to see. You can almost look back through time and through the mists of history,
I always feel slightly depressed by beautiful vistas, you know i mean . Ah, the storybook kingdom of granada. One of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain. And one of the most beautiful. Granada is tucked against the Sierra Nevada mountains of andalucia in Southern Spain. Its not like barcelona. Its not like saint sebastian. It aint madrid. Any reasonable person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, theyre going to fall in love. Otherwise, theres something deeply wrong with you. Spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. And in the very best possible way. This is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. Also anarchy. This is where devout Catholicism Mixes with surrealism, Modernist Cuisine with traditional tapa. Christianity and islam traded places, shared space. The effects of influences of all those things are right here to see. You can almost look back through time and through the mists of history,