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Odd Boy Out

By: Gyles Brandreth
Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

The long-awaited autobiography from beloved star of Just a Minute, QI, Have I Got News For You and Celebrity Gogglebox.

There are few people Gyles Brandreth doesn't know or hasn't met - from the queen to the Sex Pistols, Mandela and Marlene Dietrich to T. S. Eliot, he's the celebrities' celebrity, as familiar and welcome to us on radio and screens as biscuits are to a cup of tea.

Now a grandparent, looking back on his remarkable life, he traces his steps back to being a three-year-old tearing around 1950s London on his tricycle, to boarding school where he had an appendix removed simply to get out of football, to Bedales, where he met Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (and became intimate with a matron), to balancing his growing love of theatre with his love for educating, the 'woolly jumper years', the stint as an MP, the years of close friendship with the queen, to becoming a septuagenarian Twitter star and stalwart fixture in British entertainment.

Throughout it all, there are lessons to be learned as Gyles derives wisdom and wit from his extraordinary encounters. Full of stories and full of heart, this is Gyles as you don't yet know him.

©2021 Gyles Brandreth (P)2021 Penguin Audio Entertainment & Celebrities Politicians Politics & Activism Celebrity Funny Heartfelt Thought-Provoking Witty

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some hesitation noted, definitely some repition of topics evident in this book.
took a while to get into.but on the whole, quit enjoyable.

just a minute !

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One of the best books I’ve ever listened to, full of a wealth is interest and things I never know about Giles.

Brilliant

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I think I had expected this to be the irritating musings of an egocentric (why buy it? I wanted to be proved wrong!) I was completely entertained throughout! Gyles Brandreth is a consummate raconteur! These fascinating insights have lulled me to slumber; excellent bedtime listening! More importantly, I have been entertained on my weekly drives from Lancashire to North Wales, going to visit my mother, who quite recently decamped to Colwyn Bay, to be cared for in a residential home.(I wasn’t quite cutting the mustard in the caring stakes) I was sad when the reading ended. What next time accompany me? I think I shall opt for more of Mr Brandreth! Thank you for your anecdotes and witticisms.

Entertaining throughout!

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I enjoy Gyles Brandreth and always have. The fact that he knew and worked with Kenneth Williams helped in that feeling. I love listening to him and his life story is amazing. In his voice makes it even more entertaining. Brilliant

Marvellous

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Funny, witty and heartwarming. I will listen to this again after a while. A feel good, beautifully written and narrated life story.

So entertaining

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