Bafta honour for Monty Python stars


	Bafta honour for Monty Python stars

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8-18-2009 12:30 PM

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more: It will also include interviews with guests including Steve Coogan, Bruce Dickinson, Jeff Bridges, Eddie Izzard, Stephen Merchant, Dan Aykroyd, Tim Roth and Hugh Hefner.

The Pythons will collect the Bafta after a screening of the film at New York's Ziegfeld Theatre on October 15, 40 years after the first edition of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast by the BBC.
By Damon Wake

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