Monty Python's Flying Circus

Eric Idle · Michael Palin

Nov 2006 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Terry Jones

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Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones star in this innovative and groundbreaking series which includes 19 of their best sketches. From the memorable 'Nudge Nudge Wink Wink' to the celebrated 'Dead Parrot Sketch', there’s also the hairdresser with a fear of hair who really wanted to be a lumberjack in 'Barber Shop Sketch' and the 'Lumberjack Song'. Also featuring among many timeless classics are leading figures from the Third Reich, who fetch up in a B&B in the West Country, and the famous composer who only has one shed but did once think of getting a second... Vintage Beeb: classic albums first available as BBC LPs, now reissued on CD and as downloads.

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ORIGINAL SLEEVE NOTE FROM 1970 The idea for Monty Python's Flying Circus was first talked over in a conference room in the BBC Television Centre in June of last year. Round the table sat John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, myself, John Howard Davies, who directed the first four episodes for Monty Python and Barry Took, who had brought the five together under the BBC's banner. Barry Took introduced us then left. We then started to thrash out a format, if you could call it that, for the series. Very quickly I realised that the writers' humour was my humour, and we knew we would have fun doing the show. The only difficulty was - a title. We chose Monty Python's Flying Circus for three carefully considered reasons:- (1) because as far as we knew, there was no-one called Monty Python; (2) because it had nothing to do with flying; (3) because it was not a circus. We admit quite happily that this title has caused a certain amount of fun and confusion. Plain silly to quote the Colonel. More messing about. I believe that Monty Python's Flying Circus has something to amuse anyone with a sense of humour which includes, I hope, all of us. Ian McNaughton.