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  • By: Alan Partridge
  • Narrated by: Alan Partridge
  • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (9,557 ratings)
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Editor reviews

Britain’s most loved radio presenter, Alan Gordon Partridge, gives his innumerable fans an honest and revealing memoir, I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan, which he narrates in a complete and unabridged audiobook. Partridge will entertain and engage you as he takes you over the course of his remarkable career and his equally as fascinating private life. Partridge’s life is an inspiring journey through the media industry in Britain. From a steady rise to the top, to a humble return back to his beginnings. Available now from Audible.

Summary

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.

©2011 Alan Partridge (P)2011 HarperCollins

Critic reviews

"Legendary." ( The Guardian)
"Some of the UK’s finest comedy." ( The Telegraph)
"Coogan’s greatest creation." ( Daily Mail)
“I’m a massive Alan Partridge fan, and this is without a doubt the funniest book I’ve ever read. You’ll be laughing at something on every single page. Its worth downloading the audiobook, though, so you can listen to Alan reading it to you.” (Greg James, Heat Magazine)

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much of the same

I'm an avid AP fan and so I was delighted to listen to the audio book. However I thought that this was more a case of a book that had to be written for financial reasons rather than a book that had to be written for any literary reasons!
It's good to hear Steve Coogan reading his own work, but it's not a book I shall come back to, and in fact I put it down several times during the course of reading, and had to push myself to pick it up again, but each to their own!

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Brilliant

Makes me feel a film or another series is on the way as it it so well constructed and brilliantly executed. I've always been a fan of steve coogan, partridge being my favourite and was worried he may be past his best since seeing a show on his last tour, but this reaffirms why i fell in love with his comedy. Listened in the car for a week a chapter at a time and couldn't stop laughing in places, te rewind it back to listen again. Loved his chapter about his wife. All in all the best audiobook i've ever listened to. He's a real pro.

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Old rope

Not the same creative wit as you’d expect from his other material, and just re-used old rope. Bit boring to be honest.

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one word: hilarious

stop wasting time reading these reviews. download this book, you fool!

Thank you Alan for this piece of literature

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Awful

A character that had a couple of decent lines back in the day but now well past it’s sell by date

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Lovely stuff

This is literally 'actual' Jackanackanory, Alan Style. I could listen listen to this again and again and, probably, again. Whether I listen to it again after the first three agains remains to be seen, but it's that enjoyable.
I also read it in book form and enjoyed it massively... probably won't read it again and again (etc)
Partridge's delivery really brings his life to, er... life. Great listen. Highly recommend. I guess you get the general idea from what I just wrote, but if you don't like Partridge you won't be considering this anyway...

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Hummmm

Not going to lie I was expecting better from someone that I thought was a great guy.

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Unbearably Hilarious.

Violently and unexpectedly drenched my car in coffee laughing to this on my commute. Amazing.

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Spiceworld!

My friend Dan listened to this audio book and laughed so hard that he had Kenco running down his nostrils. And that made me laugh, but my nostrils were clear.

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Not bad.

Partridge is a truly awful character, and the high standard of writing in this book (thanks mainly to Armando Ianucci) brilliantly illustrates the pedantic dullard and bore that he is. However it's a shame they didn't check the pronunciation of some of the place names before recording - Costessey, Wisbech and Dereham spring to mind - because on North Norfolk Digital, Partridge surely would be a stickler for getting such things right. There is one particularly poignant moment when he receives a piece of good news, and without thinking rushes to call his wife to share it with her. Then he remembers they're divorced, so he puts the phone down again. It's meant comically, but there is an all too common real-world sadness here where he has no-one to tell about his good news. It perfectly sums up the sorry and lonesome life he leads, because he's his own worst enemy.

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