RHLSTP Book Club 145 - John Dowie (Part 2)

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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RHLSTP Book Club #145 - Before I Go - Rich is back in St Neots, talking to John Dowie about two of his recent books, The Freewheeling John Dowie and Before I Go. Why did John sell all his records and albums and get on his bike to cycle round Europe? How did he cope with weird and rude hoteliers? How did his penis cause him to cross the continent under false pretences? Plus growing up in Birmingham in another era, his dad’s autobiography, giving Spike Milligan his address on a chip wrapper, how Ken Campbell did magic, realising why his school bully behaved in the way he did and why you should only take advice about creative jobs from someone who does it already. A couple of beautiful books from someone who might have people but who loves language and beauty. Do search out his stuff. You won’t regret it.

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0:00.0	Hello, my finest friends. Thank you for downloading the podcast. Thank you to everyone who came to the Sheffield for Alastable with Bernie Clifton. It will be out in September in two parts. Could have been eight or nine parts if the theatre had let us stay in there all the time. Absolutely amazing. Can't wait for you to hear it. But do come and see these shows live because the atmosphere was electric in their absolutely fantastic,
0:23.2	hardly ever experienced anything like that is Brian Blessed times two, but he's such a lovely
0:29.0	man. But look, we are doing more gigs at the Edinburgh Fringe if you want to experience it live
0:33.1	from the 30th of July to the 10th of August. I'm at stand three at 2 o'clock every single day with a different guest.
0:41.3	If you go to richetering.com slash Rahalusper.
0:43.6	You can see who is coming up.
0:45.4	It includes Tom Rosenthal.
0:47.5	It includes Reese Darby and Dan Schreiber and Buttons from the Cryptid Factor.
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0:57.9	Lots of fantastic names that you will not want to miss. Check it out, richardine.com slash Rahalistabur. Come and see us in Edinburgh. We've got a lot of
1:02.9	money to pay for our accommodation. So please, please buy some tickets. And thank you for listening
1:08.0	to the podcast. Do tell your friend. See you again. Hello, welcome to another Rahalasdaba Book Club. This week we are in St. Neots.
1:17.3	I think it's in Cambridgeshire. I'm not even sure where it is. I don't know who St. Neot was.
1:22.1	We are talking to John Dowie about two of his books before I go and the freewheeling John
1:28.3	Dowie which are available to buy well before I go is available you might
1:33.1	manage to pick up a second hand copy of the freewheeling John Dowie if you go
1:38.0	online from the controversial publishers Unbound who get a little mention in this
1:44.0	podcast but yes the from the controversial publishers Unbound, who get a little mention in this podcast.
1:46.6	But yes, we, this is, it was lovely to talk to John.
1:50.7	So this is me talking to John Dowey about his two fantastic books.
1:56.1	If you enjoy this and you haven't listened to it yet,
1:57.8	there's also a Harasbara that went out a couple of days ago with John as well. Let's thank you very much to Chris Evans and Ben Evans, not those two. Let's sit back
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