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Going Off Alarming: The Autobiography: Vol 2
by
Danny Baker
"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 bestseller, acclaimed for its non-stop humor and ...more
Danny Baker's first volume of autobiography, Going to Sea in a Sieve , was a Sunday Times bestseller, acclaimed for its non-stop humor and ...more
Hardcover
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272 pages
Published
September 1st 2014
by Orion Publishing
(first published May 8th 2014)
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Volume 2 of Baker's memoirs is a colourful, at times riotous breeze through the years where his media ubiquity, he claims, must have been grating for viewers and listeners. That's not how I remember it. His co-conspirator, Danny Kelly, once described Baker as the country's best broadcaster and from radio evidence, that's how I remember the early 1990s. He's still doing the same show on 5Live on Saturday mornings, and it's unmissable.
His inherited devil-may-care cavalier attitude to such fripperi ...more
His inherited devil-may-care cavalier attitude to such fripperi ...more
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Having thoroughly enjoyed
Going to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography
, the first volume of
Danny Baker
's autobiography, I was looking forward to
Going Off Alarming
which is the second instalment.
Danny Baker is a great story teller and someone with many great stories to tell. The first thing to confess is that I am very biased in favour of Mr Baker. I am frequently amazed to discover that not everyone shares my enthusiasm. What's not to love?
Going Off Alarming is, in common with Volume 1, very si ...more
Danny Baker is a great story teller and someone with many great stories to tell. The first thing to confess is that I am very biased in favour of Mr Baker. I am frequently amazed to discover that not everyone shares my enthusiasm. What's not to love?
Going Off Alarming is, in common with Volume 1, very si ...more
Oct 03, 2014
Robert
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
biography
,
non-fiction
Sky black with hats, for this is a pip and a dandy. An object lesson in how this sort of thing - i.e. a multi-volume autobiography - *should* be done;
nota bene
,
Stephen Fry
. It fairly zips along, is seldom not very funny and along the way skewers most of the tropes that we've been trained to expect from the genre. Can't wait for volume three for more letting daylight in on magic. English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete...
This is a tremendously entertaining book, more so than the first volume, with stories and anecdotes that had me snorting with laughter every other chapter. The story that stretches the incredulity most of all, however, is how Danny underlines how everything just seemed to fall into his lap career-wise. According to him, he never strived for anything, never had any media centred ambitions, never had never a clue what he’d do next and lived fundamentally for the moment. Which, underneath it all, y
...more
Danny Baker is one of the most entertaining broadcasters there is. His radio shows have always been a breath of fresh air, his wit and ability to tell stories is without equal.
This second installment of his biography covers the years of his big breakthrough and subsequent fall from grace.
It is a series of tales told only as Danny could tell them. There is little meat to flesh out the bones of why he got the sack from various broadcasters and shows. To that end there is little malice or bad fee ...more
This second installment of his biography covers the years of his big breakthrough and subsequent fall from grace.
It is a series of tales told only as Danny could tell them. There is little meat to flesh out the bones of why he got the sack from various broadcasters and shows. To that end there is little malice or bad fee ...more
Oct 01, 2015
Donald
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
auto-biography
,
humour
I enjoyed this much more than the first volume, I think because it covers a period I can remember.
My only objection I that these multi volume memoirs have obviously been written in one go, (perhaps after/during his cancer diagnosis?), so why must we suffer slim yearly volumes? Why not one hefty tome to cover a life lived anymore?
I also admire the fact that despite plenty of scope for it, cancer, a prematurely dead sibling, these aren't in any way a misery memoir. As he says about his brother, th ...more
My only objection I that these multi volume memoirs have obviously been written in one go, (perhaps after/during his cancer diagnosis?), so why must we suffer slim yearly volumes? Why not one hefty tome to cover a life lived anymore?
I also admire the fact that despite plenty of scope for it, cancer, a prematurely dead sibling, these aren't in any way a misery memoir. As he says about his brother, th ...more
It's rare for me to laugh out loud at a book but this was impossible not to, usually building from a snigger through a stifled to laugh to an outright guffaw.
Baker writes like he broadcasts - with brio and wit and sheer joy of life - at times the sentences are worthy of a latter day P G Wodehouse in the way he builds an anecdote.
The undoubted star of the book is his dad Spud, a man with his own outlook on life and who Danny clearly adores, his mum is no weak link either and wife Wendy manages to ...more
Baker writes like he broadcasts - with brio and wit and sheer joy of life - at times the sentences are worthy of a latter day P G Wodehouse in the way he builds an anecdote.
The undoubted star of the book is his dad Spud, a man with his own outlook on life and who Danny clearly adores, his mum is no weak link either and wife Wendy manages to ...more
Just as good as the first volume with more tales and anecdotes than is surely right for one life and there is another volume to come. Great writing, a corking life and highly recommended reading.
Hilarious. I'm a big fan anyway but this is a great read. The stories about his Dad are laugh out loud funny but it is the chapter on Paul Gascoigne which stands out. Moving, genuinely empathetic and beautifully written.
It's a delight to read this second volume of Danny Baker's autobiography. He is such an optimistic extrovert with an expert way with words. He has wonderfully entertaining anecdotes. This book is a tonic. Roll on volume 3.
I was already familiar with a lot of these anecdotes but this is a superbly written autobiography and packed with great stories, hilariously told. The bit about him trying to paint the bedroom ceiling had me doubled over on the bus. Roll on Volume 3.
Just as good as the first volume. Loads of great tales.
Another brilliant read, can't wait for the third volume!
Brilliant, i can't wait for the 3rd episode.
always a great raconteur, but this one does tail off a bit at the end.
Brilliant. I enjoyed the first book and this was just as great. Most people know Danny Baker as the Daz man but he has done so much more. An entertaining romp through Danny's early TV career providing us with a fabulous insight into his early days at the 6 o'clock show.
Danny Baker has a certain wit that will go over some peoples head but for me a brilliant read from stat to finish.
Danny Baker has a certain wit that will go over some peoples head but for me a brilliant read from stat to finish.
Another 5 star read can't wait for volume 3
Danny Baker is an engaging host. He invites you into his life, sits you down and then spins yarns of all sorts about his life and career. He writes well (if indeed it's him) and it's enjoyable enough, but there's no link to tie it all together.
The glory years. A very funny read, laughing out loud on the train is always a little embarrassing but understandable when Danny talks of delivery milk to a block of flats or opening a fete in the rain. I look forward to Volume 3.
More of a series of mini dramas than an actual auto- bio
Took a little longer to get into than the first but once I got on a roll it was an enjoyable read with a couple of laugh out loud moments!
The second volume of Danny Baker's life story is as entertaining as his first (soon to be a BBC drama). Lots to make you smile.
Astonishing, as pretty much every tale sounds like it must be made up, yet you know it isn't. A wonderful read.
Excellent,even better than the first volume. Looking forward to number three.
Excellent.Thoroughly Enjoyed It.I Hear Volume One Is Even Better !
As good as volume 1. Bit less about the dog in volume 3 please....
Another very funny volume of Mr Bakers memoirs, roll on vol three.
Very funny second part of Danny Bakers Autobiography great read.
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