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Made in Scotland
- My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
- Narrated by: Gordon Kennedy
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment & Celebrities
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All roads lead back home.
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.
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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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- jdg
- 23-10-18
It’s great
I really enjoyed this book, at times I was laughing out loud at others it made me think really hard about the struggles that billy is having with his disease and how he sees the future, I hope he lives for a long time and we find a cure for his disease but never a cure for his way of looking at the world. Long live the big yin 🏴
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- Anonymous User
- 29-10-18
Enjoyable book
I thought it would have been Billy reading the book and was originally disappointed to find out he wasn't, after the 1st chapter I soon settled into Gordon Kelly's narration and enjoyed it. The book itself was a nice upbeat look back at Billy's life that made me laugh on numerous occasions.
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- Di
- 15-01-19
Well Audible I have enjoyed this program!
As a Big Yin fan I have watched all the television programs and I did wonder was there a point in listening to the book. What more could there be. It turns out...plenty. I had to accept it was not narrated by Billy but by someone that he endorses. I feel that Gordon Kennedy has done a good job and it’s Billy’s words. Things I have watched on the documentary are expanded and I can picture the scene or the person he is talking about because of the program. I really, really enjoyed the experience. Listening to the stories and reminisces of his life has been a treat. So yes, thank you Audible I really have enjoyed this program!
4 people found this helpful
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- Andy
- 24-10-18
interesting but not great
i have heard most of the stories before but it was still worth it. easy to listen to
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- Mark
- 29-06-22
Billie at his story telling best.
A book I would recommend for lovers of Billie Connely. It's good that his able to tell his story in his unique way. Although a actor played the part. the real Billie Showed through.
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- Elizabeth Elliott
- 12-02-22
A true story teller
I first saw Billy on the Parkinson show with my Dad sat laughing at his jokes and watching Parkinson crack up like us a true National treasure long may he continue
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- Richard Smith
- 22-11-21
Great to hear
A great insight to the life of A Scottish institution from the shipyards to his comedy
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- Andrew Watson
- 06-08-20
Hits you hard in the heart!
We all know Billy Connolly the comedian Billy Connolly the singer Billy Connolly the expert on travelling across America!
But that is not really knowing him! Made in Scotland is a very emotive look back over 75 years I wanna Glasgow’s children! When he tells the story of becoming a welder Stevenson which transforms into the Upper Clyde shipbuilders You are struck with a sense of loss of the stories he tells I’m going to be lost forever, this is advisability that everybody needs to know! Open your heart to the story of his life and don’t forget the Kleenex
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- mat brown
- 27-10-18
Awesome funny and thoughtful
What a lovely insight to the pleasures and down falls of growing old
Gordon Kennedy is a delight to listen, Billy would have been better but totally understandable why he couldn’t or couldnae (did you see what I did there)😂
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- Ann
- 20-06-22
recommended
Billy Connolly does the narration for the book. I all ways think this makes the book better. A really good book from a man with a great sense of humour. Thanks for all the laughs you given so may people, Billy. x
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- J. M. Popa
- 23-01-20
I can't believe I wasted a credit on this blather.
I actually read the other reviews before I bought this book. I guess I miss the point. Mindless and boring. The narrator was decent, but the story is just not entertaining. And again, the author has to sprinkle his pointless political leanings throughout. Can't these dopes just write for entertainment and leave the political editorials to the professional hacks?
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- kuhn1991
- 05-09-19
loved every minute!
A great telling of Billy's story. The narrator was chosen wisely and was reminiscent of Billy.
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- alexis
- 18-04-19
There's probably an incredible story here but...
this wasn't it, for me.
I was 54 minutes in, and still not completely sucked into the story. I'm not sure whether Mr. Connolly did the writing himself or had help?
I needed a stronger beginning/story to have me driven to know the rest of the story
Disappointed.
Michael Caine's book "blowing the bloody doors off" is a book that hooked me right off.
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- Sylvia J. Dymock
- 17-11-20
Not what I expected from the sample. Disappointed
Billy Connelly starts this book off by saying he is going to rant and complain. the sample lead me to believe this would be true but that was just the preface. The little i did listen to was a lot of whinging about his childhood teachers and family. And, yes he has a true right to be bitter--it was awful. But I still wish I had checked it out from the library so I could return it. wasted a credit for a book not worth keeping.
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- John Lamberth
- 10-02-20
Loved it!
A very touching, earthy and upbeat memoir. Great view of aging and honoring memories. Connolly's story-telling is superb; the genius of making the listener laugh and cry and sigh and laugh again! I only wish it was longer.
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- Shannon
- 22-05-22
Brilliant
I loved every minute of this! The writing, the performance, the reverence for the same things that I hold dear. I particularly loved the bit about bagpipes, as I have always loved bagpipes.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-12-21
Great book...
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Always enjoyed Billy's shows and was interesting to learn more about him.
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-07-21
Loved the stories
I felt a part of his history. it was touching and funny. thank you for sharing.
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- BumbleBee
- 29-04-21
Too much fun!!
Billy's biography is a lot like the opening line from Dicken's Tale of Two Cities...it was the best of times, it was the worst of times...indeed! But worst or best, happy or sad, this comic icon nailed it and I could listen to this book again and again....and again. Carry on, Billy :)
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- RC
- 21-07-20
Family Changing! (As opposed to changing only my life)
Mr. Billy Brilliant!
I’m so proud to be (26%) Scottish!
Your memoirs were thought provoking and painted a picture of humanity as one, and unfortunately, as divisive creatures!
And you brought a brilliant humor to the trials of life