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Blast From The Past

By: Ben Elton
Narrated by: Michael Maloney
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It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone.

Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong.

Only someone bad would call at such an hour. Or someone good, but with bad news, which would probably be worse.

You lie there in the darkness and wait for the answer machine to kick in. Your own voice sounds strange as it tells you that nobody is there but that a message can be left.

You feel your heart beat. You listen. And then you hear the one voice in the world you least expect . . . your very own Blast From the Past.

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'Only Ben Elton could combine uncomfortable questions about gender politics with a gripping, page-turning narrative and jokes that make you laugh out loud' (Tony Parsons)
'Elton at his most outrageously entertaining' '
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Daft but a throughly good yarn! Look forward to Ben Elton’s next effort been awhile …

Always entertaining

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As ever this is a tightly pulled together piece of work by Ben Elton; comedy, observation and politics in equal measures. Feels rather like a draught stageplay, which keeps the structure especially tight.
Anyway, the main reason i am prompted to submit a review (something not done before), was that the narration was outstanding. The very different voices were wonderful without veering into stagey. If you like clearly delineated voices this is one for you (If this is your thing can i recommend Mark Gattiss's brilliant OTT reading of his novel 'The Vesuvius Club', which is still my favourite in this respect.)

Notable narration

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The atmosphere and plot time scale created a good deal of intrigue. Good twist and vehicle for storytelling. Dark film noir.

Great Suspense

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Quite aptly for the story; I first read this book as a teenager and absolutely adored it. I never came back to it in later life for fear that it wouldn't be as good as I remembered or the politics would seem outdated... but 20 years later this book is still phenomenal. I appreciate it all the more for being a little older and wiser and Eltons wit is still as cutting and relevant as ever.

Wonderful Book, wonderfully read.

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interest ing story in particular if you remember the cold war era and Greenham common

not the usual Ben Elton a little darker than usual

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