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advises MP on Redwood, 584–5

improves MP’s percentage on Jabberwocky; 585

The Life of Brian slows in US, 588–9

working relationship with Anne Henshaw breaks down, 591

and Time Bandits, 594

O’Brien, Edmund, 120

O’Brien, Inge, 568, 583

The Observer, 37, 116, 404, 541

reviews Drury Lane stage show, 157

reviews fourth series of Monty Python, 196

reviews Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 224, 227

reviews Jabberwocky, 376

reviews Ripping Yarns, 468, 584

reviews The Life of Brian, 597

O’Connor, Des, 432

O’Connor, John, 219, 271

Odd Job (film), 319, 410, 432 and n, 440, 443, 447, 448, 571

Oddie, Bill, xiii, 14n, 15, 300, 365

Monty Python football match, 83

T-shirts, 100

Chelsea season ticket, 135

kite flying, 281

Amnesty International show, 301

at BBC annual party, 356

BBC rejects Goodies scripts, 399

Oddie, Bonnie, 354

Oddie, Jean, 138

Odeon Kensington, 65

Odin’s restaurant, London, 290–1, 373, 398, 576, 598

Official Secrets Act, 449

Ogilvy, Ian, 253, 256, 259, 262, 374

Ogley, Lulu, 68

Oh! Calcutta (stage show), 42, 141

‘Oh Hampstead’ (charity show), 29

Oh What a Lovely War (film), 591

oil crisis (1973), 145 and n, 147–8, 149, 150

OlafV, King of Norway, 349

Old Bailey, London, 62n, 110, 320

The Old Country (Bennett), 462, 463

Old King’s Arms Hotel, Pembroke, 338, 340, 341

Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, 441

Old Vic, London, 292–3, 415

Oldfield, Mike, 397

‘Don Alfonso’, 213

Oliver (musical film), 330 and n, 344, 426, 562

Olivier, Laurence, 338, 540

Olliver, Paul, 411, 475

Olrich, April, 349 and n

Olympia Press, 236

Omnibus (television series), 159, 442

On the Margin (television series), 92 and n

On the Waterfront (film), 448

Ono, Yoko, 575

Open-air Pop Festival, Lincoln, 79–81

Open Space Theatre, London, 41–2, 293

Orange County, California, 572

Orion Pictures, 556

O’Rourke, Steve, 234

Orr, Chris, 297 and n, 299, 318, 331, 422–3, 442

Arthur, 470, 479–80 and n, 516

Orwell, George, 156

Osborne, John, 224n, 592

Osborne Hotel, Torquay, 25

Oscars (Academy Awards), 455, 456, 460

Osgood, Peter, 135

Osterberg, Robert, 272–4, 289, 370 and n, 375, 456

O’Sullivan, Gilbert, 86

O’Sullivan, Richard, 508n

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 222

O’Toole, Peter, 321

Ott, Eke, xiv, 86 and n, 88, 97, 191

Ott, Max, 86n

Ottawa, ‘First Farewell Tour’, 121–2

Ovey, Rachel (MP’s grandmother), 7 and n

Owen, Mr (chiropodist), 598–9

Owen, Wilfred, 168

Owl Bookshop, Kentish Town, 442

Oxford, 65, 81

Oxford Bar, Edinburgh, 514

Oxford Experimental Theatre, 139n

The Oxford Line, 269n

Oxford Revue, 349n, 426

Oxford Union, 552, 602–3

MP takes part in debate, 352–3, 356

Oxford University, 36 and n, 413–14

Oz magazine, 62 and n, 63

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Paganini, Niccolo, 441

Page, Jimmy (Led Zeppelin), 226, 232

Pakenham-Walsh, Joan, 499

Palestine, 86, 199

Palin, Angela (MP’s sister) see Herbert, Angela

Palin, Brita (MP’s great-grandmother), 97, 408–9

Palin, Edward (MP’s great-grandfather), 97, 408–9

Palin, Edward (Ted, MP’s father), xii

in India, 165 and n

MP’s relationship with, 8, 144

Parkinson’s disease, 8, 54, 62, 107, 144

in Southwold, 8, 15–16, 38

sees The Go-Between, 77

erects windbreak with axe, 83

wedding anniversary, 109

sees ‘First Farewell Tour’, 119

Cambridge reunion dinner, 128–9

stays with MP in London, 129–30

in Westminster Abbey, 148–9

in hospital, 159, 160–1, 162, 164–5, 166, 181, 186–7, 352

stops taking L-Dopa, 180–1

hallucinations return, 184, 186–7

condition deteriorates, 225, 327

day out with MP, 233

sees Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 241

seventy-fifth birthday, 243–4

in hospital after falls, 264, 337, 343

eating problems, 289

in Southwold Cottage Hospital, 297

76th birthday, 321–2

in Blythburgh Hospital, 357–8, 360, 361

and his sisters death, 357

death, 381–4

Palin, Helen (MP’s wife), xii

first meets MP, 8,