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Made in Scotland

My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
MP3 CD
(1 CD)
Product Number: MPCD3937
Released: 01 Feb, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781528852937
Narrator(s): Gordon Kennedy
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

Billy Connolly may be a citizen of the world, but in his heart, he’s never been far from his homeland. Made in Scotland is Billy's unique and intimate portrait of his native Scotland, a love letter to the places and people that made him. It's an adventure inspired by a single incident: the moment Billy received his Knighthood and was asked, 'How does it feel to have achieved all this when you came from nothing?' His response was, 'But I did come from something!' So begins an odyssey through the Highlands, the Lowlands and the Barrowlands on a shaggy dog quest to find out what that 'something' was and whether it is still there. Far from a typical travelogue, Billy's quest is as much through his memories and experiences as it is through his excursions, with a series of key artefacts prompting reminiscences - a first pressing of a Hank Williams album (the first record he ever owned), Landseer's Monarch of the Glen, a bottle of air that re-creates the smell of the old Glasgow Docks - each of which inspire moments of reflection, joy, drama and laughter.

Author(s): Billy Connolly
Original Publish Date: 01 Feb, 2019

All Formats/Editions

Playaway
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Author(s): Billy Connolly
Narrator(s): Gordon Kennedy
Product Number D6191
Released: 01 Feb, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528852920
CD
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Author(s): Billy Connolly
Narrator(s): Gordon Kennedy
Product Number CX5016
Released: 01 Feb, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528852913
Large Print
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Author(s): Billy Connolly
Product Number LP4629
Released: 01 Mar, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528854573

Professional reviews

"Accompanying a major BBC TV series, Made in Scotland is Billy Connolly's insightful, moving and very funny account of the stuff that really matters. Accompanying a major BBC TV series, Made in Scotland is Billy Connolly's insightful, moving and very funny account of the stuff that really matters. Family, love, sex, health, football, fishing, work, art, swearing, banjos, friends, going to the pub. And good tea."

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