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Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts
Comedian and actor Roy Hudd has had a lifelong affair with show business and has here written the most complete Who's Who of British Variety Theatre ever published. As a paid performer, he just caught the tail end of this rich and colorful entertainment before it was ousted in many people's lives by television. In this marvellous book Roy Hudd recounts virtually every act he saw in the Variety Theatre, from the obscure and unknown, to the acts that emerged from it to remain with audiences for decades, inluding Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Norman Wisdom and Cliff Richard. This is an invaluable guide to the world of Variety Theatre.
The News Huddlines
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A Fart in a Colander
Roy Hudd's career began in the 1950s and since then he has worked with most of the major stars of the last forty years. Born in Croydon in 1936, his early life was turbulent. His father left home and his mother committed suicide during the war, leaving his formidable, but adored grandmother, to raise him, and it was she who gave him the title for this book. His big television break came with Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life with David Frost, John Bird and John Fortune and he also had a brief stint in the popular TV soap Coronation Street. His radio career includes the hugely popular The News Huddlines, which he starred in and ran for twenty-six years. With over thirty pantomimes under his belt, as well as many memorable Variety and West End performances, perhaps most notably as Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh's first production of Oliver!, A Fart in a Colander brings together some wonderful stories from his life, and sparkles with the fun and laughter Roy has brought to millions of people throughout his career.
A Fart in a Colander
A Fart in a Colander brings together some wonderful stories from Roy Hudd's life, and sparkles with the fun and laughter Roy has brought to millions of people throughout his career.
A Fart in a Colander
Roy Hudd has been a star of stage, screen and radio since the 1950s, and he has worked with most of the major stars of the past forty years. From his time as a Butlins Redcoat with Cliff Richard and Dave Allen, to playing a matinee in Dartmoor Prison with Ken Dodd, Roy has 'worked' every type of audience. Not only is his autobiography packed with priceless anecdotes from the bizarre worlds of variety theatre and pantomime, but he also has a beguiling personal story to tell. There's no keeping this ebullient man down and his story sparkles with fun and laughter.
British Music Hall
'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPEMusic Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan Leno, it reached its glorious, brassy height between 1890 and the First World War. In the first book on this subject for many years, Richard Anthony Baker whisks us off on a colourful and nostalgic tour of the rise and fall of British music hall.At the beginning of the nineteenth century people sang traditional songs in taverns for entertainment. This was so popular that rooms started to be added to inns...
The Pantomime Book
Comedian and actor Paul Harris has brought together an hilarious collection of theatrical material, much of it originating in Victorian times and refined and updated in many pantomime productions since.
They Called Him Al
"At last someone has got the whole fascinating story together. The story of a man dedicated to music. A man like Nat 'King' Cole who was, first and foremost, a jazz musician and then, because of his unique vocal sound, became a singer. We are so lucky that he made more than a thousand recordings most of which have been remastered and brought to glowing life on CD. He is more popular today than he was when he was alive. Young people are entranced by his brilliant phrasing and understanding of some of the most famous standards ever written and his great jazz feel. "The young man who, through years of painstaking research, has dispelled unhelpful rumours and filled in so much information on Al ...
Coronation Street Blog
If you love Coronation Street, you will love Coronation Street Blog - The Book! It's an exciting mix of some of the best writing from Coronation Street fans posted to our fan site. Our team of Corrie Bloggers have picked their favourite pieces of work for fans to enjoy in one great little book. Written by fans for fans, this book presents some of the most incisive, funny and engaging, writing about Coronation Street from fans that you'll ever read. We pay homage to current characters and say goodbye to older ones. We rave about things we love about the show and rant about some of the things that we don't. In short, it's a love letter to Coronation Street. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we've all enjoyed writing it!
