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A Kentish Lad (1997)

by Frank Muir

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A Kentish Lad is the long-awaited autobiography of one of the most enduring and endearing figures in the world of entertainment.
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Makes you sick doesn't it? An all round nice guy, who's talented as well! This was a book that I did not want to put down and also one that made me grateful that I am a slow reader. ( )
  the.ken.petersen | Nov 2, 2007 |
A completely delightful memoir that will have you chuckling all the way through. A gifted raconteur, Muir had the ability to find the humour in anything. What also comes through strongly is his sense of chivalry, thoughtfulness and care about his colleagues through the RAF and BBC. A true gent. ( )
1 vote gaskella | Mar 27, 2007 |
Charming and occasionally laugh-out-loud life story by one half of the most successful radio & TV scriptwriting duo of 1950 - 1980 in Britain & Australia. But before he describes his memorable partnership with Denis Norden there is an interesting section on his childhood in Broadstairs and Leyton, not least because he went to a state school at which it was not accounted shameful to work and learn, followed by a period in the Royal Air Force in which his early interest in photography led to him leaning upside down out of a hole in the belly of an old bombing plane taking slow-motion pictures of parachutists exiting earthwards while another airman sat on his legs to prevent him following them without a parachute. ( )
1 vote gibbon | Jul 31, 2006 |
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