Made in Scotland by Billy Connolly

Описание: This episode of ReadingforWisdom features a review of a type of book that I normally avoid like the plague…a celebrity autobiography! Luckily the celeb in question is a wise and funny man, Mr Billy Connolly. This book, essentially Connolly’s take on his Scottish homeland and how its people, culture and weather shaped him, is a nice read, not too taxing, but full of great insights and anecdotes. The sections on such wonders as Scottish working class ‘cuisine’, the Scottish holiday, and that most spectacular of things, the Scots language itself (no, not Gaelic) are an education. Another great feature of the book is that it is about ‘ordinary’ folk; celebs and celebrity life barely makes a mention, the people featured here in the main people who Connolly has known since his early years. A great supporting cast of characters to be found here.
A great section in the book for this channel is Connolly on books and reading. He includes a reading list that we’ll be writing more about over a https://readingforwisdom.com.

YouTube is full of great clips from Billy Connolly on stage, TV and in film (he’s a darn fine actor). But for a history of his career go to    • Billy Connolly: a BAFTA Tribute  .

ReadingforWisdom is a YouTube channel aimed at exploring some of the ideas around the idea of books as a timeless technology, essential for our intellectual evolution as a species. Considering ‘books’ can and will take us in all sorts of intellectual journeys but the channel does have a natural bias towards discussions about books, their ideas and authors who focus on history, warfare, politics, culture, science and the human condition (ok, most things that matter then). The videos will explore the history of religion but, unlike much content on the web referring to ‘wisdom’, it is a thoroughly secular enterprise, the editor a lifelong religious sceptic.

The channel is a companion to https://readingforwisdom.com, a site curated by Dr Emmet McElhatton to modestly add to what Robert Maynard Hutchings, Chicago academic, Editor-in-Chief of the Great Books of the Western World series and, with colleague Mortimer Adler, founder of the Great Books movement, described as the ‘great conversation’ of history; the dialogue created through the exchange of ideas through the medium of published writings. While the material on https://readingforwisdom.com is grounded in rigorous study, the product of lifelong reading, we hope to provide, and recommend, material that is accessible, stimulating and free from unnecessary academic stylings.

This series of videos are filmed and edited by Caleb McClure. Music is supplied by https://www.bensound.com/