Tom Allen is Actually Not Very Nice
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Publisher Description
All four episodes of Tom Allen's brilliant BBC Radio 4 show - plus two series of The Correspondent
Award-winning comedian Tom Allen is one of Britain's best and brightest stand-ups. He's appeared on Mock the Week, The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice and Live at the Apollo, toured several sell-out solo shows, starred in his own TV pilot and even written an autobiography.
He's always seemed pleasant and polite on the surface: but the truth is, he's a monster - or so he says. In Tom Allen's Actually Not Very Nice, he stages a stand-up intervention to find out what turned him from sweet to naughty, and how he can get back on the straight and narrow. With help from his friend Gabby Best, and the studio audience, Tom works out how best to navigate some tricky social situations - like sacking your personal trainer, dealing with other people's children, sitting through an entire play and being set up on a date. Can he learn how to keep a lid on his fury in the face of life's small injustices?
Also included in this collection are Series 1 and 2 of The Correspondent - eight bittersweet comic monologues charting Tom's professional and domestic misadventures. From handling the frustrations of his horrible job to coping with his family at Aunt Leslie's funeral, Tom's life is just one long round of miserable mundanity. But there are welcome distractions with the discovery of a new mystery friend in the workplace, and the possibility of finding love online.
And in a bonus programme from Radio 5 Live's in-depth interview show, Headliners, Tom chats to Nihal Arthanayake about growing up in '90s suburbia, coming out and his hilarious memoir No Shame - as well as revealing what he thinks of Nihal's newest dessert recipe...
Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice
Written by Tom Allen
Featuring Gabby Best
Produced by Richard Morris
A BBC Studios Production
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 5-26 December 2019
The Correspondent
Written by Tom Allen and Jon Hoggarth
Produced by Victoria Lloyd
First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 26 March-16 April 2007 (Series 1), and BBC Radio 4, 21 January-11 February 2009 (Series 2)
Headliners: Tom Allen
Presented by Nihal Arthanayake
With Tom Allen
First broadcast BBC Radio 5Live, 12 November 2020
Photo credit: Aemen Sukkar
(p) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
© 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Tom Allen has rapidly become one of Britain’s best-loved comedians, a man with a wit as sharp as his suits and as dry as some of the creations he’s critiqued during multiple Bake Off appearances. This audiobook collects together all four episodes of his blisteringly funny BBC Radio 4 show, where his stand-up explores the idea that a horrible misanthrope lurks beneath his wry charm. For good measure, Allen also throws in both series of The Correspondent—tales of his everyday misadventures—and a BBC radio interview with Nihal Arthanayake. It’s in this final piece, while he reflects on his childhood in suburban Kent, that the moving truth about the real Tom Allen surfaces: Inside those carefully pressed clothes is a brilliant mind who’s turned his struggles with identity and sexuality into some of the finest comedy you’ll hear
Customer Reviews
Great selection of Tom Allen’s work
This audiobook includes 4 episodes of Tom Allen's Actually Not Very Nice, as well as two series of The Correspondent and an interview with the man himself.
I knew Tom Allen only a little before listening to this, I'd seen him appear on a few things on TV and always thought he was funny so was interested to listen to this. The radio show was funny, the stand out bits for me being the interaction with the audience which for me was where Allen excelled and certainly where I laughed the most.
The interview was really interesting too, I realised that I am the same age as Tom and so a lot of the things he said made sense and it really made me want to pick up his book, No Shame.
The standout on here for me though, was The Correspondent. It was brilliant! Narrated by Tom as someone who has stumbled into a job dealing with complaints for a furniture company, he reads everything around him, adverts, emails, letters, post it notes, text messages. Its humorous, honest and relatable and I absolutely LOVED it!!