Billy Connolly arrives from Australia in crushed velvet, jet lagged beyond reason, and immediately starts talking about sleep apnea. He has tried the tennis ball in the T-shirt. He escalated to a football in a rucksack. He is not getting any better.

In this conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about his father's late-stage contentment with marijuana and horse racing, about his wife Pamela being a psychotherapist who specialises in sexual trauma and why he considers himself rather boring research material, and about Mrs Brown, which he describes as a modern Brief Encounter and possibly his favourite film of all time.

He also explains why a man might need the nine times table. And how far he got.

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