RHLSTP Book Club 153 - Nigel Planer

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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RHLSTP Book Club #153 - Young Once - Richard chats with a Young One who has decided to embrace his Young Oneness, even though we may not be the young ones very long, Nigel Planer about his fantastic autobiography Young Once - A Life Less Heavy. They chat about how Neil and Nicholas Craig emerged from Nigel’s real life experiences, why the American Young Ones helped to give birth to a major part of the Simpsons, seeing Laurence Olivier’s dancing feet beneath the curtain and sitting next to Spike Milligan, how doing Evita ended up in counting the number of times Nigel put on his trousers and why We Will Rock You’s multiple performances were more happily accepted, how his book is a love story to both his wife and the people he has worked with over the years, how a surprising number of the Young Ones went to public school, the Comic Strip reunion where Nigel sweated over the bill and the incredible experience of working on Yellowbeard. Plus having a scientist dad who wants to see what all the fuss about cannabis is about!

Buy Nigel’s book here https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/young-once-a-life-less-heavy-nigel-planer/01d5586cc630e3df

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0:00.0	Hi, rap fans. Welcome to another podcast. Thank you for listening. Look, we've got some live dates coming up.
0:06.7	The Butaly in the West Midlands is sold out in October. Third of November, I'm at the S-square Theatre.
0:13.3	What are my guests is Richard Aowadi. There are still some tickets left, but not very many, so get there very fast.
0:18.8	We also have the other guest book for that. We can't name him yet, but he's a very big American stand-up comedian actor
0:26.6	who I think you'll want to see.
0:28.6	Should be loads and loads of fun.
0:30.6	So quickly buy tickets for that one.
0:32.6	Then on November the 18th, I think we're back.
0:34.6	Haven't got the guests for that one yet.
0:36.6	But worth booking ahead because I am aiming very high with my guest bookings for all of these gigs, but especially the
0:43.4	London ones, there aren't very many London ones. So do keep listening. Thank you very much for all
0:47.8	your support. And now let's sit back relax and enjoy another wonderful podcast.
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0:59.0	Have you ever had to try and explain to your 89-year-old parents
1:01.6	how to set up a smartphone or tablet
1:03.6	while speaking to them on a landline?
1:05.9	It's like trying to teach an octopus to fry an egg
1:08.1	after first teaching it to speak English.
1:11.1	Mum, mum, yep, first you need to turn the thing on.
1:15.2	Well, there should be a button on the top, or maybe the side.
1:19.1	You might need to hold it down for a few seconds.
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