Matt Lucas
Season 6, Episode 17
Writer and performer Matt Lucas joins Josie and Robin this week ahead of the launch of his alphabetical autobiography Little Me. They chat about the process of writing memories plus stories of Little Britain, touring, comedy annuals and the work of favourite authors such as Douglas Adams, Edmund White and Michael Carson.
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Reading List
Matt recommends:
Loads Money and Stavros Present a Harry Enfield Production of Wad and Peeps by Harry Enfield
The Smith and Jones World Atlas by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones
Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book by Rik Mayall and Ben Elton
Vic Reeves Big Night In by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer
The Spitting Image books
Inside Little Britain by Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Boyd Hilton
The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
The Benson Trilogy by Michael Carson
Beautiful Thing by Jonathon Harvey
Help by Simon Amstell
The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
Robin recommends:
Little Me by Matt Lucas
Infinite Monkey Cage: How to Build a Universe by Robin Ince and Brian Cox
Not!: The Original Not the Nine O’Clock News Book by Sean Hardie and John Lloyd
The Goodies File by Tim Brooke-Taylor
Monty Python’s Big Red Book by Monty Python
Little Britain: The Complete Scripts and Stuff by Matt Lucas and David Walliams
A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
Yesterday’s Hero by Jackie Collins
Something Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered edited by Lin Cook
The Henry Root Letters by Henry Root
You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker
Josie recommends:
The Neapolitan Novels by Elana Ferrante
The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper
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