
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
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Alan Partridge
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By:
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Alan Partridge
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE.
Using an innovative 'dual narrative' structure you sometimes see in films, Big Beacon tells the story of how Partridge heroically rebuilt his TV career, rising like a phoenix from the desolate wasteland of local radio to climb to the summit of Mount Primetime and regain the nationwide prominence his talent merits.
But then something quite unexpected and moving, because Big Beacon also tells the story of a selfless man, driven to restore an old lighthouse to its former glory, motivated by nothing more than respect for a quietly heroic old building that many take for granted, which some people think is a metaphor for Alan himself even though it's not really for them to say.*
Leaving his old life behind and relocating to a small coastal village in Kent, Alan battles through adversity, wins the hearts and minds of a suspicious community, and ultimately shows himself to be a quite wonderful man.
* The two strands will run in tandem, their narrative arcs mirroring each other to make the parallels between the two stories abundantly clear to the less able reader.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Critic reviews
'It may be the funniest thing ever committed to sound' DAVID BADDIEL
'Partridge... has become the man our time deserves. Aha!' THE TIMES
'The audiobook is an absolute dream' RICHARD OSMAN
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Perfection
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Classic Alan
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I want the amount of caffeine Jason Statham would order... a very strong black coffee, with milk
So many laugh out loud moments, you know why you are here, reading these aren't going to stop you enjoying Partridge's peerless production.
Another Oasthouse coming next year too, I can listen to Partridge now pretty much all day and never get bored!
Rhinocerene
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Is he learning and hugging his way to enlightenment? Nah. But he is moving and aging. Bravo Steve Coogan.
Bombast; tempered by the absurd
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With no internet, no hot water, and 3 small JBL portable speakers—but no charging cable!—I had only my iPhone 11 Pro Max with charging cord for company.
The JBLs were at various stages of charge: two dots, one dot, and four dots out of a possible five. With a full charge lasting roughly 4 hours on medium to medium loud volume, I figured we had about 7 Hrs and 51 minutes of play time, between the 3 JBLs, before the whole summerhouse fell radio silent, leaving me to my thoughts in the dark Icelandic winter night or day as the sun doesn’t really rise.
The lack of service left me with very limited listening options: I had accidently downloaded or “make available offline”-ed Adele’s debut studio album “19”. Then, of course, there was this spectacular epic “Big Beacon” with a running time just under 8 hours that might just work with the expected battery life of my JBLs (combined).
However, I did start with a little listen to Adele and 4 hours and 27 minutes later I had drained my 3 JBLs—over three hours less running time than I predicted. This can be explained by my insistence that Adele’s always be played at full blast snd linking my JBLs in parallel to create a kind of “Adele everywhere” surround sound experience.
Luckily, I had completely forgot about the internal speaker of my iPhone 11 Pro Max, so I was able to listen to Big Beacon seven times in a row before being rescued by the regional snow clearing service.
It was a joy from the first moment. I was forced to hold the phone to me ear because of pocket crumb induced speaker damage and this made the ecperience even more intimate—like I was having a nearly 60 hours conversation with the man himself, Alan Partridge.
I am forever grateful for this wonderful audiobook. What could have been a tedious stretch, snowed in at a summerhouse by myself over Christmas, became instead, a rollicking goodtime—like being snowed in at a summerhouse over Christmas with a famous person who only speaks to you in the same 8 hours of prepared material, repeated again and again, and-dare I say?—more moving each time.
Alan has got to try stand-up!
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I would put Big Beacon on par with I, Partridge, and above Nomad. If you are a fan of these at all and haven’t checked out the podcast, definitely get those too. I drive a lot and the Oasthouse podcasts have been a lifesaver for me.
Steve Coogan has spent a lot of time I a recording studio lately…
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More of the same... still quite good
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Richard Keys and Andy Gray... hilarious work.
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As good as it gets
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So good!
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