William Cook

Welder, banjo player, comedian, actor, and now artist – Billy Connolly interviewed

William Cook talks to Britain's greatest comic story-teller about growing up in Glasgow, ditching the mike stand and living with Parkinson's

Billy Connolly: ‘We used to go to go to Kelvingrove Art Gallery for a slide. They had marble floors and you took your shoes off and slid in your socks’

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