Nautical but nice
Billy's ocean adventure
Billy Connolly is to join wife Pamela Stephenson on a televised quest to trace the routes of her great-grandfather.
Samuel Stephenson – a master mariner nicknamed Salty Sam – vanished in 1821 aboard his trading ship.
Now Australian-born Stephenson has retraced his last voyage across the Coral Sea for a four-part Sky One documentary, Murder Or Mutiny.
Connolly will accompany his psychologist wife on a dive to try to find the wrecked ship.
The shows are due to air in late autumn, and Stephenson will also turn her adventure into a book, hoping to follow the successes of her biographies of Connolly.
Published: 25 May 2006
