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Going Off Alarming

The Autobiography: Vol 2

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By: Danny Baker
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'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 best seller, acclaimed for its nonstop humour and anecdotal flourish. It told the exploits of Danny's extraordinary childhood and the wild living of his teenage years. Now he is 25, 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 pit stops 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 show business stroll down memory lane.

Read by Danny Baker.

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Another bright & breezy entry of Danny’s memoirs. Really pleasurable to listen to. In case this hasn’t been mentioned already there is an edit missed at 7.09.41.

Effortlessly entertaining

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Can't say I'm an fan of his, but he's a fantastic story teller and he has some great ones to tell!

Always an entertaining listen

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Read by the legend himself, makes it even more hilarious. When is this going to be made into a sitcom? Absolutely love Danny Baker. The stories have you gasping for breathe and retelling at the dinner table (without the expletives) to a 6,16 and 20 year old!!!

Hilarious

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Highs, lows, unashamedly working class. Not exactly rags to riches, but being there at the right time, place and riding the wave. Life just happens.

Nothing more, nothing less than expected from Mr B

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Such a wonderful heartfelt and warm story that constantly made me smile or physically loud

Hilarious

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