Robert Webb
Season 6, Episode 12
Actor, writer (and broadcaster) Robert Webb (Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look) joined Robin and Josie in Edinburgh to chat about his first book, How Not To Be a Boy, out next week. They chat about imaginary friends and getting picked last for PE as well as work by John Updike, Clive James, Roald Dahl, Rupert Everett and more.
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Reading List
Robert recommends:
How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb
This Mitchell and Webb Book by David Mitchell and Robert Webb
The work of George Orwell
The work of Douglas Adams
The work of Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
If by Rudyard Kipling
The work of Clive James
How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
Vanished Years by Rupert Everett
The work of Ian McEwan
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
The Rabbit series by John Updike
Josie recommends:
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
Hello Darling Are You Working by Rupert Everett
Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin
Robin recommends:
Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister by Rebecca Peyton
Godless Morality by Richard Holloway
Between the Monster and the Saint by Richard Holloway
Morality by Christopher Hitchens
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heany by Dennis O’Driscoll
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