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Life's What You Make It
- Narrated by: Phillip Schofield
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin.
Life's What You Make It, the long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved TV personalities.
For a long time, I felt that I couldn't write this book. At first, I didn't think I'd lived enough, then life got busy and filled with distractions. In more recent years, there was always a very painful consideration - I knew where it would eventually have to go.
I have recently decided that the truth is the only thing that can set me free. The truth has taken a long time to make itself clear to me, but now is the right time to share it, all of it.
Television and broadcasting has been a part of my DNA for as long as I can remember. As a young boy I would make model TV sets out of cardboard boxes, while spending long summers at home, barefoot on Cornwall's golden beaches. Landing a job at the ice-cream kiosk, I would enviously look on as my presenting heroes took to the stage of Radio 1's Roadshow, an unforgettable event when it came to town.
In Life's What You Make It I look back with nostalgic delight on my life, from being a young boy endlessly writing letters to the BBC in pursuit of a job in broadcasting, to making it on to the Broom Cupboard, with my infamous sidekick Gordon the Gopher, to being on Going Live and starring as the lead in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. It has taken four decades to get here, but I feel lucky to have called the sets of Talking Telephone Numbers, The Cube, Dancing on Ice and of course, This Morning, home.
I'm going to take you behind the scenes of my television home at ITV, into my career and my dangerously funny relationship with Holly Willoughby. I'm going to introduce you to my loving and remarkable family, and I hope most of all to tell you that life, it seems, is what you make it. Take it from someone who has sat on the very edge and looked over, it's all about the people who love you.
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- Leah
- 17-10-20
Truly honest an amazing
What a truly honest, funny, an amazing account of such fun filled career.
His family an friends are such amazing an understanding people. Would definitely recommend
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- Megan Ashley
- 14-10-21
Fantastic audio book
Ever so honest, funny and heart warming story of Phil's life so far! We are all very proud of you Phil and your amazing family which you speak so highly of! Thank you for being vulnerable and honest
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- Thomas Bradshaw
- 19-02-21
really enjoyed
loved it found it really interesting plus Phill gets my 100% support the man's got balls, so brave doing what he's just done will of saved so many lives. Phil if you happen to read this I hope to one day our paths cross there's a huge hug here with your name on
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-05-21
Brilliant!
Such an amazing book - thought provoking and it should stir everyone’s kindness they have inside that they should share Ruth our being asked
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-11-20
Loved it
Really enjoyed this book, read perfectly by Phillip himself, my only (minor) criticism would be that we were jumping backward and forward through time quite a bit which was sometimes a little confusing, other than that I absolutely loved it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-07-21
Loved this!
Thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish. Would definitely recommend and even better Philip read it himself.
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- lynda wenn
- 24-01-21
Life’s what you make it
Wow I’ve just finished this book . Very good very emotional and an excellent listen. It made me laugh and cry. God bless you
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- Mrs H M Scott-Reed
- 22-01-21
Loved it
Very enjoyable listen - great book. Definitely worth a listen. Lovely bedtime listen. Give it a go.
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- mrs d morgan
- 08-01-21
wonderful
A wonderful honest book its certainly true you never know what someone else is going through I loved listening to philip reading it thank you !
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- S M Jones
- 11-01-21
wow
I absolutely loved it. I couldn't stop laughing the moment I heard about the can of shook Coca-Cola 😂
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