A Life in Questions
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A Life in Questions
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Narrated by:
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Jeremy Paxman
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By:
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Jeremy Paxman
About this listen
The witty, incisive and frank memoirs from the legend of Newsnight and long-standing quiz master of University Challenge. Filled with views, opinions and stories from 4 decades in front of the camera.
‘Bursting with good things’ Daily Telegraph
During 25 years as BBC Newsnight’s supreme inquisitor, Jeremy Paxman proved himself as the master of the political intervview. From John Major to Theresa May and Tony Blair to Ed Miliband, he has them quaking in their boots. But it wasn’t just politicians. Paxman’s interviews with Dizzee Rascal, David Bowie, Russell Brand and Vivienne Westwood are legendary. He discussed belief with religious leaders and philosophers, economics with CEOs and bankers, books with writers, and art and theatre with artists. After 23 years on University Challenge, Paxman is also the longest-serving active quizmaster on British television.
In A Life in Questions, the tables are turned: the quizmaster answers our burning questions, telling terrifying stories and laughing at much of the silliness in the world. These are the long-awaited memoirs of the greatest political interviewer of our time.
©2016 Jeremy Paxman (P)2016 HarperCollins PublishersCritic Reviews
‘[Paxman] records his childhood and the highs and lows of his subsequent career with a sharp eye, an acerbic wit and a lingering trace of melancholy.’ Daily Mail
‘Funny, sad and revealing’ David Aaronovitch, The Times
‘Entertaining’, Books of the Year, Observer
‘[A] trenchant memoir’ Daily Mail
‘Eye-opening … [an] entertaining and anecdote-rich book’ Daily Express
‘Revealing memoir’ Observer
‘Gripping’ Literary Review
What listeners say about A Life in Questions
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- ELIZABETH
- 08-01-2017
Very Entertaining
If you could sum up A Life in Questions in three words, what would they be?
Slow down Jeremy
Who was your favorite character and why?
Que?
What about Jeremy Paxman’s performance did you like?
His verve
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. I preferred to savour it.
Any additional comments?
What an entertaining speaker and life. So many incidents and anecdotes. Would prefer it if he didn't preach quite as much but maybe it goes with the territory. He keeps telling us how lucky he has been. Perhaps he protests too much. OK he has achieved much more than most of us and likes to give the impression that it is due to hard work and initiative. The public school background, however, may have had something to do with it. Also being rude to people when they are in a vulnerable position must be a good way of getting noticed. Full marks to him for agreeing to narrate his own life story. He can't need the money. Kept waiting for him to give us the where and when on the Ruby Wax comment but he left us dangling with that one.
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