RHLSTP Book Club 138 - Johnny Ball
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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RHLSTP Book Club 138 - My Previous Life in Comedy - Richard does a rare face to face Book Club with one of his childhood heroes Johnny Ball, talking about the first part of his autobiography, which deals with his childhood and first forays into showbiz. They chat about how close Johnny came to being in the Beatles, how Ball shares some ball-related experience with Richard, briefly being in a double act with Bud Flanagan, Johnny’s remarkable memory, compering for the Rolling Stones, why he pivoted from stand-up comedy to children’s TV and why it’s taken him til his mid-80s to write this book (and his determination to write much more).
Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/johnny-ball-my-previous-life-in-comedy-johnny-ball/7760971?ean=9781835741665
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| 0:38.4 | We're still on tour with, can I have my ball back. 7th of May I'm in Harrogate. 8th of May, |
| 0:43.3 | I'm at the Warwick Art Centre. 9th of May, I'm at New Hampton Art Centre. And 10th of May, |
| 0:47.7 | I'm at Northampton. Then Stevenson on the 14th, Solstree on the 16th and Bristol Tobacco Factory on the 1st of June. And there's loads of live for |
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| 1:01.8 | some at the Bill Murray in June, 30th of June. That's in North London. I'm doing the Playhouse in |
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