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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Radio
'In these memoirs I bounce all about British TV with such success
that I wind up in radio. I will also be filling a few holes that I
left in the previous decades. For example, I managed to forget in
Book One that I had been shot. Twice.' Danny Baker's first volume
of autobiography, Going to Sea in a Sieve, was a Sunday Times
bestseller, acclaimed for its non-stop humour and anecdotal
flourish. It told the exploits of Danny's extraordinary childhood
and the wild living of his teenage years. Now, he is twenty-five
and it is 1982, and he embarks on an accidental and anxiety-induced
career in television - going off alarming. With rollicking good
stories from what he describes as 'a frankly crackpot life', Danny
continues this stupendous chronicle with irrepressible verve and
hilarity. Dozens of TV shows - many of them lousy - give up their
backstage stories, and Danny's extraordinary family, particularly
his father Spud, react to the ride throughout. Game shows, talk
shows, adverts and TFI Friday are but a few of the unplanned
pitstops along the way. Not forgetting the tale of Twizzle: the Dog
Who Hanged Himself, Died, Then Came Back to Life Again...Clearly,
this will be no ordinary showbusiness-stroll down memory lane.
Kevin McNally stars in five brand new recordings of original
Hancock's Half Hour scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Whilst
Hancock's Half Hour was an enormously popular radio sitcom in the
1950s, many of the episodes were not retained in the BBC Sound
Archive and are believed to be lost. Now, five of them have been
recreated by BBC Radio 4, with Kevin McNally taking the role made
famous by Tony Hancock. Among the supporting cast are Simon
Grenall, Kevin Eldon and Robin Sebastian.
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