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I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
- Narrated by: Alan Partridge
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder – Alan Partridge – a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future. Gregarious and popular, yet Alan’s never happier than when relaxing in his own five-bedroom, south-built house with three acres of land and access to a private stream. But who is this mysterious enigma?
Alan Gordon Partridge is the best – and best-loved – radio presenter in the region. Born into a changing world of rationing, Teddy Boys, apes in space and the launch of ITV, Alan’s broadcasting career began as chief DJ of Radio Smile at St. Luke’s Hospital in Norwich. After replacing Peter Flint as the presenter of Scout About, he entered the top 8 of BBC sports presenters.But Alan’s big break came with his primetime BBC chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You. Sadly, the show battled against poor scheduling, having been put up against News at Ten, then in its heyday. Due to declining ratings, a single catastrophic hitch (the killing of a guest on air) and the dumbing down of network TV, Alan’s show was cancelled. Not to be dissuaded, he embraced this opportunity to wind up his production company, leave London and fulfil a lifelong ambition to return to his roots in local radio.
Now single, Alan is an intensely private man but he opens up, for the second time, in this candid, entertaining, often deeply emotional – and of course compelling – memoir, written entirely in his own words. (Alan quickly dispelled the idea of using a ghost writer. With a grade B English Language O-Level, he knew he was up to the task.)
He speaks touchingly about his tragic Toblerone addiction, and the painful moment when unsold copies of his first autobiography, Bouncing Back, were pulped like ‘word porridge’. He reveals all about his relationship with his ex-Ukrainian girlfriend, Sonja, with whom he had sex at least twice a day, and the truth about the thick people who make key decisions at the BBC.
A literary tour de force, I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan charts the incredible journey of one of our greatest broadcasters.
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- Dan Bowen
- 05-06-12
I, Genius
I can imagine this would be great in print but with Alan at the helm, it's perfect in audio-format. First class stuff.
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- David
- 27-07-16
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Laugh out loud funny throughout......can't get enough of Alan. ...will be rinsing this every 3 months
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- Leo
- 19-01-17
Awful and very funny
Buy it and laugh again and again and again and again and again and again. In that order...
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- Steve K
- 02-05-16
Brilliant. Funny. A must for Partridge fans.
I bought this by mistake as I absent mindedly thought I was buying the Steve Coogan autobiography, which I later did,and this was the better of the two by far.
You really get lost in it and at times can't help believing that Alan Partridge is real and these are actual events and stories.
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- Jake
- 03-09-15
Lovely Stuff
This is the best 7 hours I've spent since being stuck in traffic with Fiona Fullerton on the A13 northbound approach to the Blackwall Tunnel in 2004. A lorry had shed it's chemical load across the central reservation. Fiona and I played 20 questions, I-spy, The Parson's Cat, and many more victorian parlour games reinvented for the motorcar (in this instance a Volkswagon Passatt Tdi.)
Anyway, for 11 years I've not been close to this level of enjoyment and fun. Or funment, if you will. Until listening to this book. One word of warning though, if you are planning to listen 'in marathon mode' (AKA no breaks in transmission) and, like me, you are using a home surround sound system (Dolby 5.1) without the means of portable roaming audio, can I please sincerely advice you to stock up on toilet roll. By chapter 22 I was using wet wipes, and although I know this is some people's idea of fun, let me tell you it was not pleasurable, and simply left my anal beard feeling moist and overly clammy.
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- smcvit
- 16-09-14
Excellent to hear it read by Alan
What does Alan Partridge bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Steve Coogan brings the book alive, because he reads it as Alan. Having read the book before listening to the Audiobook, then it was possible for Alan's voice to come off the page, but with Alan narrating, it truly makes the book laugh out loud funny, leading to funny looks I got whilst giggling to myself on the train.
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- Music lover
- 03-10-12
Sorry it had to end
Simply wonderful to have Steve Coogan reading this - it really brought it to life.
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this on my daily drive (not barefoot) to Dundee.
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- Effe Oake
- 10-02-15
Simply superb.
Comedy at its best. Anyone who cannot enjoy Partridge cannot enjoy life, and in an ironic twist, probably takes themselves too seriously, like Alan Partridge.
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- Gregory
- 30-07-15
Absa-bloody-fantastic
Better than a day out at Longstanton Spice Museum, better than a weekend break with Hamilton's Water Breaks and almost certainly better than spending 183 days in the Linton travel tavern (although it is equidistant between London and Norwich, handy for a weekend away from the hustle and bustle of the two major cities of England). I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan is a fantastic listen and one of the funniest books I have ever had the pleasure of having read to me!
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- Connell
- 24-07-15
Will make you laugh out loud
If you could sum up I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan in three words, what would they be?
Absolutely brilliant. The audio version is a whole different experience from the paper version. Brilliantly read by Steve Coogan in character, this book will make you laugh if you are a partridge fan.
What other book might you compare I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan to, and why?
I feel I now know Alan much more
Which scene did you most enjoy?
Alan presents his side of the story very well.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Perfect.
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