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Article: The Python's tale; The latest TV updates have made the Canterbury Tales popular again. Terry Jones is delighted - he swapped the Flying Circus for Chaucer years ago.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2003
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Byline: FIONA MADDOCKS
TERRY Jones has always known how to keep an audience interested.
Asked, aged seven, to write an essay about Christmas, he devoted it to his father's underpants.
"I said I hoped he would be given some new ones because all his were in tatters. I've still got it. It's rather moving.
As a small boy I was always anxious about my parents because we never had enough money. What on earth can my teacher have thought when she saw my father?"
He giggles his characteristic, almost ultrasonic, wheeze and fiddles with the wristwatch he is wearing on the belt around his trousers. We are in an eyrie-study at the top of ...