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Going Off Alarming

The Autobiography: Vol 2

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Going Off Alarming

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.

©2014 Danny Baker (P)2017 Orion
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One of three books by Danny baker and ai we'll worry a listen I hope he does more.

The Baker Books

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I read the hardback when it came out but it’s so much better being read by Danny. 5 stars all the way

Brilliant book

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Just fantastic, a read that makes you laugh all the way through. I think Spud is my new hero!!

Real life in South London

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I can’t say I was a big DB fan “back in the day” but decided to give the first volume of his autobiography a go after the TV version with the (personal opinion) badly miscast Peter Kay as his Dad, and I was hooked. I think I listened to the whole thing over one evening! So went straight onto his second, and have loved every minute of it. Downloading his third, and preparing myself for something rather more difficult as we head into his life-threatening health problems. I do hope we get a fourth volume!

Once Ubiquitous, Incredibly Honest

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Former TV man and professional cockney dwells on all the dud hands he's been dealt..... Only joking Dan, hugely entertaining. Especially liked reading about his friendship with Gazza. Great read.

More cockney capers

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Not sure why this was not released with the book, but it is worth the wait. Danny Baker is a great storyteller on the page and spoken, with a way of looking at things side-on, and if you like Danny you will love and laugh out loud at this tale of his misadventures and life.

Worth the wait

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A rattling good yarn, lovingly crafted and wonderfully told.
Laugh? I thought my trousers would never dry...

A rattling good yarn

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Long time fans of Danny Baker know that he can rattle off anecdotes like no-one else and this book gives new (and old) fans the chance to hear the genius at work.

The King of Anecdotes

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The way Danny reads his own story is brilliant. I’m almost sad it’s finished, except part three is here, can’t wait :-)

Even better than volume one

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Danny Bakers' 3 books are the most entertaining and funniest autobiographies I have ever read-brilliant!

Laugh out loud funny!

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