Going Off Alarming, Danny Baker
Going Off Alarming, Danny Baker
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Going Off Alarming
The Autobiography: Vol 2

Author: Danny Baker

Narrator: Danny Baker

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/05/2017

Synopsis

The dazzlingly funny second volume of Danny Baker's memoirs: the television years.

Since my first book was published I have had countless friends and family members get in touch to say how come I hadn't included this story or that tale. Was I ashamed of being shot twice, once up the arse, in Jamaica Road? How long should a man live with such a secret? If by retrospectively dropping my trousers every few pages I can reveal a fuller picture of myself during these years, then so be it.

Besides. Being shot up the arse. In front of your mates.

What else did I forget?

Written and Read by Danny Baker
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2017

About Danny Baker

Danny Baker is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. He currently presents daily on BBC London 94.9 and a weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live.For more, visit Danny Baker's website at www.internettreehouse.co.uk and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/prodnose.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on November 26, 2014

Having thoroughly enjoyed Going to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography, the first volume of Danny Baker's autobiography, I was looking forward to Going Off Alarming which is the second instalment. Danny Baker is a great story teller and someone with many great stories to tell. The first thing to confes......more

Goodreads review by David on October 14, 2014

Volume 2 of Baker's memoirs is a colourful, at times riotous breeze through the years where his media ubiquity, he claims, must have been grating for viewers and listeners. That's not how I remember it. His co-conspirator, Danny Kelly, once described Baker as the country's best broadcaster and from......more

Goodreads review by Derek on April 06, 2015

It's rare for me to laugh out loud at a book but this was impossible not to, usually building from a snigger through a stifled to laugh to an outright guffaw. Baker writes like he broadcasts - with brio and wit and sheer joy of life - at times the sentences are worthy of a latter day P G Wodehouse in......more

Goodreads review by Robert on October 03, 2014

Sky black with hats, for this is a pip and a dandy. An object lesson in how this sort of thing - i.e. a multi-volume autobiography - *should* be done; nota bene, Stephen Fry. It fairly zips along, is seldom not very funny and along the way skewers most of the tropes that we've been trained to expect......more

Goodreads review by Margaret Robson on December 01, 2018

Less endearing than ' To Sea in a Sieve' I can listen to Danny Baker talking about anything - he is such an engaging broadcaster. I loved the first volume of his autobiography but found 'Going Off Alarming' a bit disappointing. There were moments among the anecdotes which made me smile but I would n......more

Quotes

From presenting cheeky trivia on teatime telly to a disastrous panto sting, he's like a living poster of Kipling's If, happily talking over both Triumph and Disaster. ...his own talents, at least as a memoirist, are closer to that other driven south Londoner Spike Milligan. INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Going Off Alarming is quite simply the funniest book you'll read all year. Seriously.
...Like its predecessor, the book is a hoot from soup to nuts, easily as funny, as self-deprecating and as worldly-wise as The Moon's A Balloon by David Niven. If you have been unlucky in life, and have spent the bulk of it without coming into contact with him or his work, then this book is a wonderful introduction. What's it like? Well, it's like Tom and Jerry written by a Cockney Roddy Doyle on Prozac. But funnier. GQ ONLINE

..great company and a brilliant raconteur. THE OBSERVER

Volume two of Baker's autobiography rattles along at the same delightful and dizzying pace as its predecessor. ..Baker loves a tale told at his own expense and they come thick and fast. He writes like he speaks, with hyperactive garrulity and a rhetorical flourish. ..there is something about Baker in full flow that is affirming. Book three will doubtless be out for next Christmas but, when it comes to the Pangloss of Deptford, you are happy to forgive him the indulgence. DAILY TELEGRAPH

For comic value, go for Danny Baker's latest memoir. The funniest book Dylan Jones has read all year. GQ

It's the strength of the anecdotes, and welcome digressions from the narrative, that make the book such a delight. CHOICE MAGAZINE

Any autobiography that opens with the author being shot in the buttocks demands your complete attention. This book made me howl with laughter HERALD SCOTLAND

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