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Michael Palin shares memories of his 1988 screenplay for the drama Number 27 - one of his early post-Python solo ventures and written around the same time as East of Ipswich, when he was exploring his own skills as a storyteller.

The drama tells the story of 90-year-old Miss Barwick, played by the veteran actress Joyce Carey, who finds herself being circled by property developers and facing eviction from the house she's lived in for her entire life.

Looking back on the piece, Palin recalls how Joyce Carey gave the production its heart, and how audiences fell for her in the same way that the drama's property shark ended up falling in love with the house at Number 27.