MONTY Python's globe-trotting superstar Michael Palin stops off in Liverpool next month as part of a tour to promote the third volume of his diaries.

The actor, comedian, author and playwright comes to the Echo Arena Auditorium on Saturday, October 11 with his new stage show Travelling to Work 1988 - 1998.

It looks back at twenty-five years of exploring the world and nearly fifty years in radio, television, books and films.

The first half is a whistle-stop tour of the globe. Highlights and lowlights, adventures and cock-ups, beauties and beasts, wonders and wash-outs, all vividly illustrated with a special selection of photos and footage shot during the eight TV travel series that began with Around the World in Eighty Days.

In the second half of the show, Michael takes a free-wheeling look back at the other side of his life - the love of comedy that took him from schoolboy in Sheffield through to his life as a member of comedy legends Month Python and their recent reunion at the London's O2 Arena.

He'll talk about the joy of writing and acting that has produced two novels and taken him from a dead parrot salesman to the headmaster who fights back in GBH.

It promises lots of memories, with one thing in common. A love of laughter.

Tickets for his show at the Echo Arena on October 11 are from the box office on 0844 8000 400.