Tony Blackburn Special
Elis James and John Robins on Radio X Podcast
Radio X
4.9 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey team, welcome to a bonus podcast. It's a special one. We've released this for our first anniversary. |
| 0:07.2 | And basically, it's the complete works of John Reads Aloud from Tony Blackburn's autobiography. |
| 0:13.6 | It was a wonderful section of the show in which I picked out my highlights from Tony Blackburn's autobiography, Pop-Tastic. |
| 0:21.0 | If you're listening, Tony, we love you, mate. |
| 0:23.3 | It was a great book, and I found out from Steve Coogan himself |
| 0:27.8 | that it was a reference point for I-Patridge. |
| 0:30.6 | So do enjoy, team. |
| 0:32.5 | And thanks so much for your support in downloading the podcast and spreading the word. |
| 0:36.8 | Bye-bye. |
| 0:37.5 | John reads aloud from Tony Blackburn's autobiography. |
| 0:41.5 | I don't know if you have ever read I-Partridge, Alan Partridge's autobiography. |
| 0:46.2 | It's very funny, isn't it, Ellis? |
| 0:47.5 | I had to stop reading that on a train because I was laughing so loudly. |
| 0:52.5 | It was irritating. |
| 0:53.5 | And I wasn't even in the quiet |
| 0:54.5 | carriage. I just thought I would hate this person. However, it's perfect. Tony Blackburn's |
| 1:00.6 | autobiography Pop-Tastic is even funny. It is everything you're about to hear is 100% real. I'm |
| 1:08.3 | going to read from a chapter towards the end of the show most |
| 1:11.3 | weeks. It's so funny how a man with clearly no sense of humour and zero self-awareness can write |
| 1:18.5 | the holy grail of comedy scripts. I think I need to read it in a slightly Alan Partridge voice. Do you |
| 1:25.5 | agree? Yes. Okay, so it basically charts |
| 1:29.5 | his career and sort of marriage breakdown in the 60s, 70s and 80s. And the first chapter |
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