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Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

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He has also made regular appearances on The Jonathan Ross Show, A League of Their Own, Michael McIntyre's Big Show and The Graham Norton Show. His discussion of a horrendously racist 1996 storyline in which the character Julie Martin accuses her new Chinese neighbours of killing and barbecuing her missing dog is grimly fascinating though. I’d thoroughly recommend it to everyone (even if your youngest ‘baby’ is 11 tomorrow like mine, and your oldest one of the four is 19. From only having four people in his year at school, to living in a family home where they didn't just not bother locking the front door, they didn't even have a key.

It was also a real nostalgia trip and heartwarming to read the similarities in mine and Josh’s childhood from the growing up in the middle of nowhere (in my case, Norfolk), the small class sizes and the very minor cases of rule breaking (one whole class detention). Throughout there is a few great points where it refers to how television shows shaped his childhood and also some facts about some of those shows you may not even remember. The highlight of the book is a spirited defence of Mr Blobby and the failed enterprise of Blobbyland. The only elements I wasn’t keen on were the football (too much of it if you’re not a fan) and occasionally the sentences weren’t structured properly.I’ve never seen most of these TV shows, being American, but Josh describes them in perfect and hilarious detail! In the UK, Oasis album Definitely Maybe sold just over 2 million copies, quite boring TV show How Do They Do That?

This is a brilliant book – funny, clever, well written, brilliantly observed and a roller coaster of reminiscing with a dollop of popular culture from the 2000s onwards thrown in too. This may result in small marks to the dustjacket and title page, please also bear in mind that each signature will be a little different from the one we show here.I respect the fact that is the main focus but if you start the book talking about growing up and how shows effected you growing up and sort of autobiographical it should continue like that and not sore of fizzle out.

Together 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. As someone who grew up watching the same television and loving it, I like to think I got lots of the very niche references.Matt Phillips, publisher for Blink and John Blake, acquired world rights in a major deal from Flo Howard at Off The Kerb. In another ‘small world’, Josh refers to supporting England at a major football tournament as a ‘doomed relationship’ in the chapter about Euro 1996 – which is somewhat ironic as I watched the England v Switzerland opening game on the floor of Bangkok airport, waiting to fly home from the honeymoon of my first marriage (it hadn’t failed at that point – we lasted another few years, so longer than Terry Venables as England Manager at least). Readers who pick it up because they're fans Widdicombe and want to learn more about him will get only two anecdotes that he hasn't already shared on The Last Leg, Would I Lie to You, or Graham Norton, in some cases all three. Recorded at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, viewers of this tale twisting perfectionist can expect an insight into Josh’s everyday annoyances and gripes.

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