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Sue Perkins: An hour or so with...

19: Alan Davies

Sue Perkins: An hour or so with...

Audioboom Studios

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A stand up comedian, actor and writer Alan has been ever present on our screens since 1997 when he first appeared as the magician come sleuth Jonathan Creek.

Perhaps best known as the only permanent panellist on comedy quiz show QI Alan wrote his first book in 2009, his new book ‘Just Ignore Him’ will be available from 3rd September.

All the music in this episode is by ‘Waiting For Smith’, go and check out more from ‘Waiting For Smith’ on Spotify and follow him on social media.

Produced by Dan Quick

This episode is sponsored by Best Fiends - available on the Apple App Store or Google Play.

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0:00.0

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0:28.2

Eligibility criteria apply. Alan Davis is one of the UK's most beloved comics and now he's written a book called Just Ignore Him.

0:41.0

I read it without knowing anything much about its contents and found myself being

0:45.5

profoundly moved by the subject matter. It's been embargoed before its publication on the 3rd of

0:51.5

September, so in this podcast I could only

0:53.6

allude to some of the darker and more meaningful moments. So instead we

0:58.6

started out discussing the origins of his love for Arsenal.

1:13.0

You are a die-hard Arsenal fan,

1:16.5

and what comes across in the book that that is a legacy from your mom giving you a shirt or did she give it to you or was it around and you felt

1:21.6

she'd given it to you? Well I've always thought that it was given to me by her and that was my memory of it and that's one of the interesting things about

1:30.6

memories it's wrong most of the time and then I discovered some photographs from

1:36.3

1971 and there's my brother in the Arsenal shirt so he'd had it before me or as you say it was around and maybe it was a

1:48.0

maybe it was just a kind of a gray area who's I don't know what my mother's

1:52.1

allegiance were if there were any.

1:54.4

But my brother followed my father and has continued to do so.

2:00.3

And I just preferred the shirt. I like the white sleeves and the red.

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