Michael Palin Remembers - East of Ipswich

The actor and writer reflects on his 1987 comedy drama

The actor and writer recounts the story behind his 1987 comedy drama, a semi-autobiographical tale that captured how he and his wife of 57 years Helen first met while still teenagers on their summer holidays in the 1950s. Describing it as one of the pieces that he's most proud of, Palin shares how his memories of real incidents and characters, including his parents, fed into his screenplay, and how the drama has taken on a life of its own in the Suffolk town in which it was filmed