Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness

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In December 2021, Bailey started touring his new show, En Route To Normal, to venues in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He is perhaps most well known for his live shows - most recently Qualmpeddler, Limboland, and The Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra. He was also the host of Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza in January 2010, and wrote and presented his award-winning documentary about Alfred Russel Wallace, Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero, in 2013. from genres such as jazz, rock (most notably prog rock from the early seventies), drum'n'bass, classical, and even theme songs, usually for comic value. In 2013, to coincide with the centenary of Wallace's death, Bailey presented a two-part documentary, Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero, first broadcast on BBC Two on 21 and 28 April 2013.

A critical and commercial success, he then transferred it to the West End, where tickets sold out in under 24 hours, and new dates had to be added. It was announced on 18 September 2008 that Bailey would leave the series and be replaced by a series of guest captains including Jack Dee and Dermot O'Leary. Funny and insightful, and positively crackling with energy, knowledge and wit, this beautiful paperback will delight Bailey's fans, birds as well as those who fancy a bit of armchair escapism.He also talks extensively about drugs, at one point asking the audience to name different ways of baking cannabis. We hope you will be delighted with every purchase, but if not, we will offer you a replacement or a full refund - whatever the reason.

Alongside music and stand-up, one of Bailey’s favourite pastimes is birdwatching, which he has been doing since he was a child in the West Country. His father was an NHS general practitioner "who ran a little surgery in the front of the house", and his mother a hospital ward nurse. News from Nowhere will not obtain personal information from other organisations, and will not share, pass on or sell personal information that we hold about individuals to anyone else. Bailey was educated at King Edward's School, [18] an independent school in Bath, [19] where he was initially a highly academic pupil. In episode 1, Walter struggles with his son's desire to be a dancer, instead wishing him to become a builder, which is what he himself does for a living.The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. In September and October 2018, Bailey toured his show, The Earl of Whimsy, to seven venues within New Zealand.

If you’re a parent who’d like to appear a bit clever when your child asks you the name of a bird; if you want to find a new and healthy hobby that takes you outdoors; or whether, quite simply, you want to understand a bit more about our natural environment and have a laugh at the same time, this is the perfect companion book to have. In 2007, and again in 2010, he was voted the seventh greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. As he has said about those formative years, ‘birdwatching gave a purpose to the day and a love of the natural world which has carried on into my adult life’.He won the competition with his partner, Oti Mabuse, becoming the show's oldest winner at 55, displacing the previous oldest winner Joe McFadden. He also states he was good at sport and was the captain of the KES 2nd XI cricket team in 1982, which often surprised his teachers. In 2020 Bailey won the 18th series of the televised BBC dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing with his professional partner Oti Mabuse. The show's attendances were not impressive and on one occasion the only person in the audience was comedian Dominic Holland. One minute we are wild swimming in an Icelandic Lake, Paddleboarding on the Thames or being invited on stage at Sonisphere Festival, the next he is talking about having a clear out or going cycling.