An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World War An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World War T erry Jones was a Python, a historian, a bestselling children’s author and a very naughty boy. He loved to play women in drag, started a magazine about countryside ecology (Vole), founded his own real-ale brewery and was even once a columnist for this