Audiobooks by Jeremy Hardy

Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation: The Complete Series 1-10: The BBC Radio 4 comedy series

'The master of quietly inflammatory comedy' - The Evening Standard 'Made me drop the kettle in shock, but worth it' - The Daily Telegraph Few can forget where they were in September 1993 when they first heard Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation. The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series, the show has gone on to win Sony awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for Chemistry with lines like - 'Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year old daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make her own'. Included here are all ten series of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, with episodes are on topics like 'How to stay alive as long as you possibly can', 'How to have a baby', and 'How To Confront The Vexed Issue Of British Identity Without Getting In The Most Fearful Bate About The Whole Thing'. This bumper collection also includes Jeremy Hardy's New Year Cavalcade - an unmissable meditation on everything Yule and a healthy dose of comic Bisodol to flush away the memory of driving up the motorway for seven hours in the dark to spend quantity time with your family - and the memorial programme When Jeremy Hardy Spoke to the Nation. Not quite a biography, not quite a documentary, this final programme is narrated by his great friend and colleague Sandi Toksvig, and shines a light on how and why the man once described as 'an incendiary vicar' stayed so funny and so beloved for over 30 years. Produced and directed by David Tyler. A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. ©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Jeremy Hardy (Author), Jeremy Hardy (Narrator)

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Jeremy Hardy Feels It: The BBC Radio 4 comedy

Jeremy Hardy returns with a brand new series that not only seconds that emotion but explains it too. Yes, BBC Radio 4's most passionate polemicist returns to the airwaves with a new format which promises to be both personal and profound, and to present sides of Jeremy you won't have heard before. He may even sing. (He won't sing.) The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue regular, proud progenitor of ten series of Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, and winner of numerous awards and almost certainly the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Jeremy is famous for lines like: "Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year old daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make her own." and - "Islam is no weirder than Christianity. Both are just Judaism with the jokes taken out." His unique world view once lead him to be likened to "an incendiary vicar". Gillian Reynolds called him, "an idealist, a dissenter, a polemicist and moralist - he's a salutary reminder that jokes can, and should, be about big things." The show is produced by Jeremy's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler, whose radio credits include Cabin Pressure, John Finnemore's Double Acts, Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Marcus Brigstocke's The Brig Society, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The Castle, The 99p Challenge, Deep Trouble, My First Planet, Radio Active and Bigipedia. His TV credits include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul Calf Video Diary, Coogan's Run and exec producing Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies. In the four shows, Jeremy is feeling - in turn - happy, sad, fearful and finally, hopeful!

Jeremy Hardy (Author), Jeremy Hardy (Narrator)

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The News Quiz: Series 89: Eight episodes of the BBC Radio 4 topical comedy panel show

Miles Jupp presents eight episodes of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show. The long-running satirical panel show that inspired Have I Got News For You returns for its 89th series, tackling the big (and not so big) events that have been making the headlines. In these eight episodes, players poking fun at the news include FrancisWheen, Susan Calman, Zoe Lyons, Hugo Rifkind, Lucy Porter, Sarah Kendall, Jeremy Hardy, Samira Ahmed, Rich Hall and Steve Lamacq. Using their considerable comedic talents, they dissect topics as varied as the forthcoming EU referendum; the junior doctors' strike; the controversy over Oxford University's Cecil Rhodes statue, the US election front runners and the Met Police's idea of using eagles to intercept drones. Keeping the panellists in order is chairman Miles Jupp, while newsreaders including Kathy Clugston, Susan Rae, Diana Speed and Zeb Soanes read a selection of the funniest cuttings sent in by listeners. Duration: 4 hours approx.

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The News Quiz: Series 88: Eight episodes of the topical BBC Radio 4 panel game

In his first series, Miles Jupp is in the chair for eight episodes of BBC Radio 4's ever-popular topical comedy show. The News Quiz,‘the finest topical comedy panel game known to radio’, has been providing headlines, punchlines and a sharply satirical take on the news since it first aired in 1977. In these eight episodes, the players include regulars such as Mark Steel, Susan Calman, Jeremy Hardy, Samira Ahmed and Lucy Porter, as well as newer panellists including Danny Finkelstein, Sarah Kendall, Emily Ashton, Elis James and Sara Pascoe. They dissect issues diverse and diverting, including Jeremy Corbyn; Lord Ashcroft's biography of David Cameron; the 5p charge for plastic bags, the Rugby World Cup and Playboy's cover-up. There's also the usual selection of funny cuttings sent in by listeners, read bynewsreaders Neil Sleat, Kathy Clugston, Susan Rae and Diana Speed. New boy Miles Jupp is in the chair following the retirement of Sandi Toskvig from the show in June 2015, making him the fifth host in the show's 38-year history. Duration: 4 hours approx.

Jeremy Hardy (Author), , Jeremy Hardy, Miles Jupp (Narrator)

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News Quiz: Soundbites: Four episodes of the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game

Sandi Toksvig chairs four sparkling episodes of the ever-popular topical comedy show The News Quiz, ‘the finest topical comedy panel game known to radio’, which has been providing headlines and punchlines since it first aired in 1977.In these four episodes, long-standing panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Mark Steel and David Mitchell take a wry look at the news in all its larger-than-life glory.With guest players including Bob Mills, Sarah Pascoe, Samira Ahmed, Justin Moorhouse, Elis James and Lucy Porter, they tackle issues as diverse as Scottish Independence, commuter train standards, Russian activities in Crimea, dietary health scares, passport delays and black cab strikes. Also included is a special Sport Relief interlude in which the players answer questions whilst clocking up miles on an exercise bike - with a special guest appearance by Duncan Goodhew!Sandi Toksvig chairs proceedings, while Neil Sleat, Kathy Clugston and Diana Speed read a selection of humorous cuttings.

Jeremy Hardy (Author), Jeremy Hardy, Others, Sandi Toksvig (Narrator)

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Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation: The complete Series 10

Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves with four broadcasts of national comic import. 1. “How To Eat Food” In order to help explain one of our most fundamental acts as human beings, Jeremy picks up the topic of food with the chopsticks of enquiry and then drops it on his trousers of former cleanliness. Helping him tackle the subject will be special guests Vicki Pepperdine and Paul Bassett Davies2. “How To Define Oneself In Terms Of Regional, Cultural And Geopolitical Identity Without Tears” In this post-Scottish-Independence referendum world, Jeremy dispassionately examines the questions of nationality, identity and accents. The noo. Helping him get to grips with the new world are Susan Murray and Moray Hunter.3. “How To Be A Good Citizen” Jeremy attempts to understand citizenship, to examine the State and to spell surveillance. Looking over his shoulder at the script will be Gordon Kennedy and Carla Mendonça.4. “How To Be Better, Theologically, Socially, Nationally, And In Terms Of One's Own Personal Development, Responsibility And Interaction With The Fellow Humans With Whom We Share This Fragile Planet An Ting”. Using just the Bible, the Monarchy & Audrey Hepburn, Jeremy Hardy promises to build a whole new you. Helping him along will be Paul Bassett Davies & Carla Mendonça

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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation The Complete Series 8

This complete eighth series of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation contains 4 episodes, with the titles How to Grow Up, How to Confront the Vexed Issue of British Identity, without Getting in the Most Fearful Bate About the Whole Thing, How to Have Faith and How to Communicate without Showing Off. Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they first heard 'Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation'. The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series, the show has gone on to win Sony awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for Chemistry with lines like - 'Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year-old daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make her own'. This series featured a revamped format where famous actresses were invited onto the show to face Jeremy's kindly indifference. Guest stars include Gordon Kennedy ('Robin Hood'), Rebecca Front ('The Thick Of It'), Shappi Khorsandi, Pauline McLynn ('Father Ted'), Morwenna Banks ('Saxondale') and Paul B Davies ('Spitting Image').

Jeremy Hardy (Author), Guests, Jeremy Hardy (Narrator)

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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation The Complete Series 3

Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they first heard 'Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation'. The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series, the show has gone on to win Sony awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for Chemistry with lines like - 'Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year-old daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make her own'. 'The master of quietly inflammatory comedy' - Evening Standard. 'Made me drop the kettle in shock, but worth it' - Gillian Reynolds in The Daily Telegraph. 'The one-liners come hit the target time and again so that you've hardly stopped grinning from one gag before the next one comes along' - Evening Standard. This is the Complete Third Series, and contains six episodes, with the titles: 'How to Be a Man' 'How to Bear Up Under the Strain' 'How to Make Your Presence Felt' 'How to Improve Your Mind' 'How to Keep Abreast of Developments' 'How to Be Happy' This series also features an early appearance from the great Meera Syal.

Jeremy Hardy (Author), Jeremy Hardy (Narrator)

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My Family and Other Strangers: Adventures in Family History

Exploring family history is an urge that has gripped the nation, and it has gripped Jeremy Hardy too. In My Family and Other Strangers he sets out on the road and on the world wide web to find out all he can about the Hardy clan. His aim is to prove - or more likely disprove - his grandmother Becky's dubious claims that they are descended from Sir Christopher Wren and that Jeremy's great grandfather was personal bodyguard and confident to the King. Wild stories apart, Jeremy travels as far a field as his local library and the hostile waters around Malta in order to find family traits that go beyond a big nose and IBS.Whatever he finds, how will he know how much is in the blood and how much is coincidence? Might he discover a comedy gene? But perhaps what he will find is more important is to build up a picture of those relatives he knew too fleetingly as a small child, and the people who filled their world. Negotiating the living and the dead, the familiar and the distant, in My Family and Other Strangers Jeremy Hardy takes us on a fascinating and often hilarious journey into the world of family ancestry.

Jeremy Hardy (Author), Jeremy Hardy, Jeremy Hardy (Narrator)

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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation The Complete Series 2

Few can forget where they were thirteen years ago when they first heard 'Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation'. The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series, the show has gone on to win Sony awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for Chemistry with lines like - 'Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year-old daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make her own'. 'The master of quietly inflammatory comedy' - Evening Standard 'Made me drop the kettle in shock, but worth it' - Daily Telegraph 'The one-liners hit the target time and again so that you’ve hardly stopped grinning from one gag before the next one comes along' - Evening Standard This is the Complete Second Series, and contains six episodes, with the titles: 'How To Be A Popular Figure Around Town' 'How To Have A Baby' 'How To Be A Leader Of Men' 'How To Be A Father - Part 1' 'How To Be A Father - Part 2' 'How To Meet The Challenge Of The 21st Century'

Jeremy Hardy (Author), Jeremy Hardy (Narrator)

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