Michael Spicer
Book Shambles
Recorded live online as part of the More Than Words Literary Festival, Robin and Josie are joined by comedian and writer Michael Spicer who you probably best know as the ‘Room Next Door’ guy. They chat about his recently released first book, The Secret Political Advisor, creating comedy during the pandemic, the state of satire and a whole lot more.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
The Secret Political Adviser by Michael Spicer
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O’Toole
The B’stard File: The New Statesman Exposé by Rik Mayall
The Timewaster Letters by Robert Popper
The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC Files by Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong and Simon Blackwell
The Big Red Book by Monty Python
The Henry Root Letters by William Donaldson
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book by Douglas Adams
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