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    It is over a year since the trust handed down its verdict on the show, which aired in 2007, but Palin is clearly still fuming. "The complaint was upheld. That, I believe, brings the BBC into disrepute. I think it was a stupid decision. I felt very, very angry and very let down" Palin told a Royal Television Society veterans' lunch. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
    The complaint was upheld. That, I believe, brings the BBC into disrepute. I think it was a stupid decision. I felt very, very angry and very let down
    – Michael Palin SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
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Palin tells of anger at BBC Trust rebuke
  1. I think we would be looked at very carefully. There would be much more managerial interference, which there never was
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
  2. We were allowed to get on with our show once they had agreed it. I just don't think it would be the same nowadays and I think that is regrettable. We are in danger of having to be so accountable to everybody for everything [the BBC] does and the wider public.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
  3. Fair enough, everyone has opinions.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
  4. I had a complaint from someone, as far as I gather a serial complainer, who said I hadn't condemned the Serbs roundly enough in the programme
    – Michael Palin SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago

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