Bill Bailey

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The comedian, actor and musician, Bill Bailey describes his upbringing in the town of Keynsham in Somerset as idyllic. He credits his strong work ethic to his father who was a GP in the village and whose waiting room was situated in the front of their family home, where, occasionally he’d bump into ailing strangers as they attempted to navigate the various doors. Bailey believes his work ethic is what helped him to become the oldest winner of Strictly Come Dancing in 2020. His En Route To Normal tour kicks off in Plymouth on Sun 12 December and runs through to mid January. Tickets and dates can be found at www.BillBailey.co.uk

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0:00.0	This is a global original podcast.
0:08.6	Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast designed chiefly to let me spend more time than is ordinarily available in a radio studio with people that I find interesting.
0:17.6	And I'm delighted to tell you that this week's guest is Bill Bailey.
0:20.5	Bill, thank you for doing this.
0:21.8	Oh, you're very welcome.
0:22.8	Two things from my cursory research.
0:25.8	Okay.
0:26.5	The first is that we share a birthday.
0:29.9	It's a funny old world.
0:31.1	Do I?
0:31.5	Yeah.
0:32.3	But the second is that for a long time, you had the wrong birthday recorded.
0:37.2	Yes.
0:38.6	How did that happen?
0:47.9	This, as I'm sure you are aware, is down to the vagaries of Wikipedia. Right. Because, unbeknownst to me, people take it upon themselves, who these people are, I know not, to document your life on Wikipedia,
0:58.0	which of course you can.
0:59.0	It's a sort of public access site.
1:02.2	And they got it into their head that my birthday was on the, I don't know, 24th of Feb or something.
1:08.3	It isn't.
1:09.2	It's just not.
1:09.9	It's just not.
1:12.4	And I don't even know why that date came up. It's like I've never mentioned it ever in the press, in interviews. I don't know what.
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