Armstrong And Miller Children's Hour

Oct 5, 2024 6:21 PM

Author:Alexander Armstrong,Ben Miller,Alexander Armstrong,Ben Miller,Guests

Pompous critics and culture journalists Martin Bain-Jones (Armstrong) and Craig Children (Miller), present a frightfully clever culture show, a wry look at the fringes of popular music. They’re hip, they’re happening – so they say – and in these four episodes they discuss Boy Bands (Peter Andre would be in a band if he had any mates), Middle of the Road (those bland or unchallenging songs), as well as Brit Pop and Solo Artists. Follow them as they compete to get the best scoop. Who knows, they may even win a Best of the Rest Award. A 'Brest' in other words... Children’s Hour is written by Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller and features guest stars David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Luke Goss. The show that treats you – the kids – just like adults. Remember though, if you spoil it, you spoil it for everyone...

Reviews

Thornton explores the gentle complexities of this odd couple with wit and warmth

—— Independent

Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume

—— Jay McInerney

The indiest book of all time

—— Guardian

Brilliant depictions of the era...nails it so precisely

—— Stuart Evers , The Word

With The Alternative Hero, Tim Thornton has gone through the looking glass of obsessive fandom and brought back a hilarious, memorable, and hard-rocking tale

—— Madison Smartt Bell, author of 'All Souls' Rising'

A deliciously bittersweet novel that will touch the heart of anybody who ever fell in love with rock and roll

—— Mick Brown, author of 'Tearing Down the Wall of Sound'

Sparkly and authentic

—— Mark Hodkinson , The Times

It's the usual lad-lit comic romp ... but it's fresher, funnier and more amiable than most

—— Brandon Robshaw , Independent on Sunday

No one can make you feel quite like Stephen Fry can . . . Funny and tormentedly frank

—— Time Out

Hugely enjoyable . . . compulsively readable . . . Fry is excellent on the details of memory, too, and always able to embellish them with effortless erudition . . . this engaging, engrossing read is as honest a portrait of a young liar as one could hope to read

—— Scotsman

He is bubbly, funny and charming, and he gives his fans plenty of material if they want to speculate on why he is both so gifted and so wayward

—— The Times

The jokes . . . transcend the complexes of the joker, turning the Stephenesque into a national as well as a family treasure

—— Guardian

Not so much an autobiography, more a way of life; discursive, funny, sometimes almost unbelievably sad, opinionated, nostalgic and very infectious

—— Claire Rayner, New Statesman

Fry can be funny about anything

—— Good Book Guide

So charming and so acute that one cannot help forgiving him

—— Daily Express

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