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Audible Review: But Enough About Me
This week I’m going to be discussing Audible’s production of the actor, Burt Reynolds’, autobiography, But Enough About Me. Narration is by the author, with a forward by Jon Voight. But Enough About Me An Extraordinary Life At one time, Burton Leon Reynolds Jr, was the most famous actor in the world. Adored for playing…
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Audible Review: Let’s Do It
This week, I’m going to be discussing Audible’s production of Let’s Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood by Jasper Rees. Narration is from a large cast of her close friends – Julie Walters, Jasper Rees, Kate Robbins, Richenda Carey, Jane Wymark, Daniel Rigby, David Threlfall, Anne Reid, Susie Blake, Duncan Preston & Celia…
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Audible Reviews: The Hezbollah Hiking Club
This week, I’m going to be discussing Audible’s production of Dom Joly’s The Hezbollah Hiking Club – a funny, heartwarming travel book. The Hezbollah Hiking Club The Author To people of a certain age, Dom Joly is always going to be the prankster of the Channel 4 Trigger Happy TV series, screaming ‘Hello?’ into a…
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Audible Reviews: Mama’s Boy
This week, I’m going to be discussing Audible’s production of Dustin Lance Black’s Mama’s Boy: The Art of Building Bridges – Black’s emotional account of his extraordinary mother’s life and his own journey to acceptance. Mama’s Boy The Author I think that I first heard of Dustin Lance Black, via the news that he was…
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Audible Review: Unjustifiable Means
This week, I’m going to be discussing Audible’s production of Mark Fallon’s Unjustifiable Means – the inside story of the shadowy dark side of the US intelligence community which emerged in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Unjustifiable Means In June, 2019, I attended a conference in London entitled ‘Physical and Psychological Torture: Multi-disciplinary approaches…
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Audible Review: Sum – Tales from the Afterlives
This week, I’m going to be discussing Audible’s production of David Eagleman’s Sum: Tales from the Afterlives – 40 fictional possibilities of what might await us beyond the grave. Sum – Tales from the Afterlives I was first drawn to this small book in its solid incarnation by a quotation from Stephen Fry on the…
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Audible Review: The Wicked Boy
This week, I’m going to be discussing Kate Summerscale’s The Wicked Boy – a shocking true story of a Victorian murder and the aftermath. The Wicked Boy The Author Kate Summserscale became famous for writing The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008. You might be familiar with…
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Audible Review: That Close
This week I’m going to be discussing That Close – the entertaining life story of the lead singer of Madness, Suggs. That Close First Crush Full disclosure, before I begin – I think Suggs was my first celebrity crush! I guess it was around the time of the release of Madness’ song, House of Fun,…
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Audible Review: Alien III
This week I’m going to be discussing Audible’s version of William Gibson’s screenplay for the third film in the Alien film franchise, Alien III. Alien III What if? Here is a real curiosity – what might have been if William Gibson’s screenplay had been produced, rather than the much-derided David Fincher film? Fincher, himself, said…
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Audible Review: What Are You Looking At? 150 Years Of Modern Art
This week, I’m going to be discussing Audible’s version of Will Gompertz’ seminal work on 150 years of Modern Art – What Are You Looking At? What Are You Looking At? Tate Modern Tate Modern recently overtook the British Museum as London’s premier tourist attraction – more than 5.8 million of us visited in 2018.This…
