Alan Davies has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is Just Ignore Him.
Just Ignore Him
Summary
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsight, always with a keen sense of the absurd. From sibling dynamics, to his voiceless, misunderstood progression through school, sexuality and humiliating 'accidents', Davies inhabits his younger mind with spectacular accuracy, sharply evoking an era when Green Shield Stamps, Bob-a-Job week and Whizzer & Chips loomed large, a bus fare was 2p - and children had little power in the face of adult motivation. Here, there are often exquisitely tender recollections of the mother he lost at six years old, of a bereaved family struggling to find its way, and the kicks and confusion of adolescence. Through even the joyous and innocent memories, the pain of Davies' lifelong grief and profound betrayal is unfiltered, searing and beautifully articulated. Just Ignore Him is not only an autobiography, it is a testament to a survivor's resilience and courage.
©2020 Alan Davies (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK
Brer Rabbit Again
Summary
Brer Rabbit will never learn! He loves to play jokes and tricks and set traps for his friends - but once in a while, they beat him at his own game! This collection of timeless stories of the briar patch trickster and his friends are retold in Blyton’s hugely popular and successful style. Enid Blyton is arguably the most famous children’s author of all time, thanks to series such as The Wishing-Chair, The Faraway Tree, The Mysteries, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven. In this Brer Rabbit story, listeners can enjoy all the magic, fun and adventure one can be guaranteed of when they open a Blyton classic.
©1963 Enid Blyton (P)2015 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
The Alan Davies Show
Summary
Award-winning comedian Alan Davies stars in his own BBC Radio sitcom. Meet Alan. He's a struggling actor trying to cope with life in the 90s - the friends, the work, the romance... Meet the friends: Murray is a local journalist, who's given a crash course in tabloid sensationalism when the entire staff comes down with Peruvian flu. Kate is a primary school art teacher, who tussles daily with the obnoxious seven-year-old Tamara and tries to save time by getting the children to write their own reports. As for the work, he's played a gay miner and a giant strawberry, but as he's fond of pointing out, he's a serious actor. And as far as the romance, well, girlfriends come and go (mostly go), but Alan battles on. Funny, flippant, and often just farcical, The Alan Davies Show brings the stand-up comic's hilarious observational humour to the airwaves in this brilliant sitcom.
©2012 Alan Davies (P)2012 AudioGO Ltd
The Owl at the Window
Summary
'She is dead. She was here just now, and she was alive. How can she suddenly be dead? People in history are dead. Old people are dead. Grandparents are dead. Other people are dead. Not people like me. Not this person. The person I was married to. Had a child with. Not the person who was standing next to me. Chatting. Laughing. Being.' Shock is just one of many emotions explored in award-winning TV comedy writer Carl Gorham's account of his bereavement, which is by turns deeply moving and darkly humorous. Part love story, part widower's diary, part tales of single parenting, it tells of his wife's cancer, her premature death and his attempts to rebuild his life afterwards with his six -year old daughter. Realised in a series of vivid snapshots, it takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from Oxford to Australia, from Norfolk to Hong Kong, through fear, despair, pain and anger to hope, laughter and renewal. The Owl at the Window is a fresh and original exploration of what it means to lose a partner in your 40s and how Carl learned to live again.
©2017 Carl Gorham (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd