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Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...

How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

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Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...

Yazan: Josh Widdicombe
Seslendiren: James Acaster, Josh Widdicombe
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'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could deliver' James Acaster

'If you read only one book by Josh Widdicombe this year, make it this one' Jack Dee

'Beautifully written, cleverly crafted and charmingly funny' Adam Hills

'This is a book about growing up in the '90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. For my generation television was the one thing that united everyone. There were kids at my school who liked bands, kids who liked football and one weird kid who liked the French sport of petanque, however, we all loved Gladiators, Neighbours and Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh (possibly not the third of these).'

In his first memoir, Josh Widdicombe tells the story of a strange rural childhood, the kind of childhood he only realised was weird when he left home and started telling people about it. From only having four people in his year at school, to living in a family home where they didn't just not bother to lock the front door, they didn't even have a key.

Using a different television show of the time as its starting point for each chapter Watching Neighbours Twice a Day... is part-childhood memoir, part-comic history of '90s television and culture. It will discuss everything from the BBC convincing him that Michael Parkinson had been possessed by a ghost, to Josh's belief that Mr Blobby is one of the great comic characters, to what it's like being the only vegetarian child west of Bristol.

It tells the story of the end of an era, the last time when watching television was a shared experience for the family and the nation, before the internet meant everyone watched different things at different times on different devices, headphones on to make absolutely sure no one else could watch it with them.
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'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could deliver' (James Acaster)
Brilliantly observed (Romesh Ranganathan)
'Cleverly crafted, charmingly funny' (Adam Hills)
'If you read only one book by Josh Widdicombe this year, make it this one' (Jack Dee)
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An amazing book from an amazing stiff neck. A proper nostalgia fix for me and I cannot believe how much I had forgotten from my childhood.

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Like most who may read this book, I was a child of the 90s and couldn't get enough of this nostalgia-thon. Chapter after chapter of memories flooding back via Josh and his love of TV. It really does feel at times as though you're sitting with a friend, chatting about some of the most landmark TV moments of your life. I particularly liked the glimpses we got of Josh's Devon based upbringing, and how events married in with TV shows that came and went as he grew up.

A warm cuddle of 90s nostalgia goodness

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This was so fantastic. Well researched, well read and very funny. I didn't remember every show he talked about but the chapters were so entertaining I wanted to listen regardless. Would definitely recommend!

Really great book!

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and so much more I had forgotten!
a really great summary of a 90s childhood

everything I remembered from growing up in the 90s

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A real blast from the past. Listening to this audiobook has made me remember things not thought about in years, decades even. Loved the narration, loved the post cast interviews. Now I have to order a hard copy so I can look at the pictures!

Trip down memory lane..

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