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Going to Sea in a Sieve

The Autobiography

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Going to Sea in a Sieve

By: Danny Baker
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 The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay.

'And what was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial pock-mark wedged into one of the capital's toughest neighbourhoods? It was, of course, utterly magnificent and I'd give anything to climb inside it again for just one day.'

In the first volume of his memoirs, Danny Baker brings his early years to life as only he knows how. With his trademark humour and eye for a killer anecdote, he takes us all the way from the council house in south-east London that he shared with his mum Betty and dad 'Spud' (played by Peter Kay) to the music-biz excesses of Los Angeles, where he famously interviewed Michael Jackson for the NME. Laugh-out-loud funny, it is also an affectionate but unsentimental hymn to a bygone era.

Read by Danny Baker

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Full of warmth and laughter (Ian Hyland)
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This is absolutely the best autobiographical audio book I have ever heard! Best Value ever!

absolutely the best audio book ever!

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Do not listen to this book if you travel on public transport it will make you look like a lunatic !
The stories from the early days of Danny's life are amazing and the other two books aren't half bad too.

dangerously funny

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Danny Baker is amazing! A true force of nature and his stories are brilliant. and compelling always.

Force of Nature!!

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