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How we named Monty Python's Flying Circus
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Michael Palin explains the inspiration for the name of the famous comedy sketch group.

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  1. How we named Monty Python's Flying Circus
    03:11
    How we named Monty Python's Flying Circus
  2. Why I've grown a moustache
    02:16
    Why I've grown a moustache
  3. Writer Debbie Horsfield on the financial challenges of making a series like Poldark
    02:41
    Writer Debbie Horsfield on the financial challenges of making a series like Poldark
  4. Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
    03:52
    Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
  5. Thomas Keneally on the girl in red in Schindler's List
    07:45
    Thomas Keneally on the girl in red in Schindler's List
  6. Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
    00:51
    Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
  7. Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
    00:52
    Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
  8. Marlon James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
    10:32
    Marlon James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
  9. Letter to My Daughter
    06:24
    Letter to My Daughter
  10. Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner
    03:30
    Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner
  11. Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
    03:58
    Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
  12. Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain
    02:33
    Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain
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