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Michael Palin established his reputation with Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several films with Monty Python, as well as The Missionary, A Private Function, American Friends, and as the hapless Ken in A Fish Called Wanda. His television credits include two films for the BBC's Great Railway Journeys, the plays East of Ipswich, Number 29, and Alan Bleasdale's GBH.
He has written books to accompany his seven travel series, Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure, Sahara, Himalaya and New Europe.
In 2006 he published the first volume of his diaries, 1969-1979: The Python Years. He lives in North London.
In 1993 and 1994 Dan searched for the stones of the Euston Arch and found a substantial number of them scattered in several locations - notably lining the bed of the Prescott Cut near the River Lea in east London. Co-founded the Euston Arch Trust and since the mid 1990s have been involved in the campaign to rebuild the arch at Euston incorporating as many as possible of the original stones. Other activities have involved writing, journalism, teaching, campaigning for conservation issues and television. A director since 1977 of the Spitalfields Trust that has fought to save and repair historic buildings in east London, founder Trustee in 1975 of Save Britain’s Heritage, served on the committee of the Georgian Group and of the Architectural Panel of the National Trust, a trustee for the repair and reconstruction of The Handel House Museum in Brook Street, and currently a Patron of the initiative to repair and reinvigorate the Bishopsgate Institute. During the 1970s and 80s an editor on the Architects’ Journal and The Architectural Review and in the early 1990s editor of Perspectives on Architecture, published in association with the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture. Co-author in 1975 of The Rape of Britain and London: the Art of Georgian Building, author in 1985 of The National Trust and Georgian Society Guide to the Georgian Buildings of Britain and Ireland, in 1990 of Life in the Georgian City and in 2003 of a study of the architecture of The Royal Hospital Chelsea. Editor in 1996 of the twentieth edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture, published in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects and the University of London.
For BBC television has written and presented items for the heritage magazine-programme One Foot in the Past (including programmes documenting the search for the Euston Arch and for the Skylon from the 1951 Festival of Britain) and The House Detectives - with series (accompanied by books) including Invasion (the architecture of the defense of Britain), Britain’s Best Buildings; What the Industrial Revolution did for us; Under Fire - the story of culture in regions of conflict such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Palestinian West Bank of Israel; Egyptian Journeys; series utilising early film-footage held by the British Film Institute, including those on early film-makers, The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon and the Lost World of Claude Friese-Greene and the Lost World of Tibet including an interview with the Dali Lama; Around the World in Eighty Treasures; a profile of John Betjeman and Adventures in Architecture. A visiting Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Sheffield and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Gavin Stamp is an architectural historian and writer. Born the year the railways were nationalised, he has always had a particular interest in the history of the most civilised form of transport and its architecture; his recent television series, Orient Express, took him by railway from London to Istanbul. He joined the Victorian Society in 1966 when St Pancras was threatened with demolition. He has written about the architecture of Edwin Lutyens, Alexander 'Greek' Thomson and the Gilbert Scott dynasty as well as about the earliest photographs of London and telephone boxes. He is pleased and relieved to find that his great-uncle, as chairman of the London Midland & Scottish Railway, agreed with the Georgian Group that the Euston 'Arch' could be rebuilt on the Euston Road when the station was proposed for rebuilding in 1938.
William Palin is an architectural historian and writer living in Spitalfields, London. He was educated at Oxford University and the Courtauld institute. From 2000 to 2007 he worked as Assistant Curator at Sir John Soane's Museum where he organised 25 exhibitions including, in 2006, 'First & Last Loves: John Betjeman and Architecture' which marked the centenary of the poet's birth and featured the Euston Arch campaign.
He has lectured widely on 18th and 19th century art and architecture and is a contributor to, and former columnist for, Country Life magazine. In April 2008 he took over as Secretary of SAVE Britain's Heritage.
Tim is a PhD student in international relations at the London School of Economics and also works in the House of Lords. Originally from Crewe, Cheshire, he now lives near Russell Square and his journeys home to the North of England are always blighted by having to use Euston Station.
David is a recent graduate of University College London and is now working in the field of transport consultancy for a leading engineering firm. Originally from Durham, he now lives in Camden Town and enjoys the commute to work every day as he has long held a passionate interest for anything transport related.
Paul is a descendant of the Hardwick & Shaw architectural family. He lives and works in the capital and is currently training to become a Blue Badge Guide for London!
Originally from Leeds, Eva lives near King's Cross and is a graduand of Univeristy College London soon to enter the London School of Economics as a postgraduate.
Email: evawaiATgmailDOTcom
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