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Narrated by:
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Glen McCready
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By:
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Ben Elton
About this listen
The ultimate pop quest. Ninety-five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that’s Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show.
Calvin always wins, because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers, and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his carefully scripted ‘search’ for a star, he has no idea that the rules are changing. The ‘real’ is about to be put back into ‘reality’ television, and Calvin and his fellow judges (the nation’s favourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factors themselves.
Ben Elton, author of Popcorn and Dead Famous returns to blistering comic satire with a savagely hilarious deconstruction of the world of modern television talent shows. Chart Throb. One winner. A whole bunch of losers.
©2006 Ben Elton (P)2009 Random House AudioWhat listeners say about Chart Throb
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Jaidee
- 04-10-2023
Typically Elton
You recognise an Elton story quickly without looking at the cover. Typically unique and modern, just not as good as his others, in my opinion. Just about every character was detestable, and plot was a little predictable.
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- burnsy92
- 24-04-2022
A True Work of Art
A brilliant story with well written and hilarious characters. Fantastic narration and an overall good laugh.
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- Stuart Holmes
- 26-01-2023
Hilarious
Such a truly satirical look at the reality TV space I abhor. Well done Ben Elton. Another great listen.
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- Sam
- 06-05-2019
Pretty funny. Ending was whack.
Narration is really good. Recording has a few old takes and CD changing prompts though.
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- Olivia Ellis
- 09-07-2018
Chapters are wrong
This is a great book and I am really liking it, but the chapter marks are in the wrong place so the sleep mode doesn’t work to stop the story at the end of a chapter. It’s really annoying!
I would enjoy this book much more if this was fixed.
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