After Dinner Speakers: Terry Jones, Lulu, Lord Nigel Lawson

Terry Jones was born on the 1st February 1942, in the North Wales resort of Colwyn Bay. His father was welsh but his mother came from the Lancashire town of Bolton. Terry and his elder brother by two years, Nigel, watched their father waste his carpentry talents doing a menial bank clerk job. Terry noted that his father only really started living when he retired and was free to pursue what he wished. During his years at the bank, Terry's father served in the RAF in WWII and went to India. When he returned, the Jones family moved to Claygate in Surrey. A move which Terry hated. He resented leaving behind Wales and the beaches and cliffs and parks, and he made a point of being as welsh as possible for fifteen years. During his time at Oxford, he met Michael Palin, a year below him and still at University when Terry had left, and the two began writing together. After University, Terry got bored of Oxford and decided to find a job. He ended up working as a copywriter for Anglia Television before he got a call from Frank Muir's secretary asking him to come and work in the Light Entertainment department. It was here that he first sat in on the Frost Report. During his time behind the scenes at the BBC he met his future wife Alison, a technician in the Botany department of the University of London. They married in 1970 and bought a three storey house in Grove Park, on the heights south of Camberwell