#902 Wilt books - Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (7th October 2022)

Hello and welcome to let me bore you to sleep please only listen when you can safely close your eyes my name is Jason Newland and my website is www. jasonnewland.com and this silly singing has gone on too long yes welcome oh what was that my nose feels a bit bruised uh so yeah hey everybody hi how are you are you well that's lovely oh where you from oh that's great what do you do for a living that sounds interesting oh lovely so yeah i'm back like i've ever been away it's ridiculous i honestly this is getting silly now i'm making too many recordings i am i'm making too many it's i've got this what's the time now it's half past eight in the evening it

was 8 33 to be precise and i've got two recordings already waiting to be that are scheduled for later one for 9 pm one for 10 pm and this will be scheduled for 11 12 1 and 2 you know the one without music 11 and so on and so forth and it's just really weird that i think i'm making too many recordings i think i am i think maybe i need to just slow down a bit because i mean i don't know what do you think let me know i don't know i'm confused man i'm

trying to figure it out because i think in reality in reality there's i mean there's not a limited number of people to listen to me but well there is i mean it's like four billion but i think i might be making too many recordings for my audience that's what i'm thinking i think i might only have five people listening so making four recordings a day is too much for those five people uh i don't know there's something me me i don't i don't i'm trying to figure it out i really am trying to figure it

out but i canny i canny figure it out because this this desk is really annoying me now it's so annoyed by it squeaky desk why don't i just change the desk over i could be easy it'd be so easy in fact i could do it right now do we do it right now honestly this is the easiest thing in the world all i gotta do is this turn around move the microphone over here whoops sorry about that and there we are although no it doesn't work for me sorry if that was a little bit bangy

the microphone fell off the stand today now the microphone's gone weird i'm constantly having to tighten up the screw let me just make sure yeah okay so i'm listening on my headphones to make sure it's still connected to the screw on the because this microphone's got a special stand completely different to any other microphone and i don't think it works very well the stand it came loose mind you it's the first time this has happened but the microphone fell luckily it only fell to the desk which is probably i don't know it's not high up

from the desk but didn't let you know didn't fall on the floor which right now if it fell it would fall on the floor because of where i've got the microphone but at the time i was getting the microphone ready to make a recording and it just came off and it fell bang like banged onto the desk and i thought oh oh i hope it had you know hope it wasn't injured really but it seems to be okay did i say injured you know what i mean damaged yeah damaged well it's in you know yeah

makes sense to me i knew what i was talking about kind of kind of so that was a little bit worrying because i've well you know i've invested a lot into these uh this equipment i don't want it to start breaking and anyone if if anyway if there's anyone listening to this thinking you know it's not very good quality sound go back two years and listen to my recordings it's a lot better than it used to be may not be great now but it's a lot better than it used to be uh i'm doing my

best i'm doing my best with what i've got and i have to i have to use my own ears and it sounds okay to me but i don't know i do listen i listen back and to see if the you know if it's the quality's okay and the volumes i've sorted the volume sit you know problem out that i had for ages uh but yeah i don't know am i making too many recordings that was the question basically isn't it that's the question my furry little friend that is the question who are you talking about

who you call you furry i'm not furry it's a natural amount of hair it's normal if i was a soldier i'm tired i mean literally as soon as i finished this recording i'd uploaded it or downloaded it edited it processed it uploaded it scheduled it or scheduled it i'm not sure i have the right way to say that word schedule schedule it'll be time for bed it'll be 10 o'clock and it's weird isn't it going to bed at 10 but i'm an adult that's a time for a child a small child to go to nope

not it but it is this is that's the time i think 10 o'clock that's kind of like a 13 year old isn't it like they've suddenly allowed to stay up a little bit later because they're a teenager like 13 14 stay up to 10 and weekends maybe stay up to 11 or midnight and the excitement of that well i don't want to stay up till midnight you can't make me why am i hearing noises so we are here banging sometimes i don't mean you know ah this without a go i'm not that okay in a

couple of places that i lived before here it was a sunday it was an afternoon i think it was sunday afternoon maybe saturday evening i heard some noises coming from somewhere in the house excuse the pun and i didn't know what it was and for a minute i thought someone was in trouble and then it dawned on me what was going on in that room and then i then i went back in my own room and i started laughing because not the fact that two people were enjoying each other's company but the fact that people

do that and i've forgotten i've forgotten that adults do that stuff because it's been so long and genuinely it's been such a long time i forgot i didn't even think that people did that stuff i literally went out of my memory which i'm glad because i didn't knock on the door and say are you okay it's weird i was like what's gone on what's what's happened to me that i would have forgotten that people adults like to enjoy each other's company company um you know i mean so it's just strange that's a genuine story genuine

i mean it's not as exciting as a lot of my other stories i'm just looking at so what did that today's friday so tomorrow's saturday i'm trying to get a few stocks in for the supermarket a few bits and bobs just to sort of get me through the winter period you know like shampoo deodorant toothpaste soap mouthwash they're i suppose they're the main things as far as and i've got face wipes wet wipes so i'm trying to stock up i've probably got enough for the winter with some of the other stuff but just trying to

get enough in bottled water as well toilet paper i've probably got enough toilet paper for the winter or for at least to the end of the year but i'm just thinking what's what's going to happen this year you know in in my country i don't know about you know where you're living and they're i don't normally talk about social issues you know me but this is something they just they keep going on about and the possibility of having uh power cuts like purposeful power cuts where they cut off the gas and electrical ever for three

hours a day and they're talking about like it might actually happen it's very specific as well isn't it you know apparently it happened um during the war or after the war something like that during the war so apparently in the past it has happened where they've done that the government so to do that during the winter if you're going to do it during do it during the summer you know if you're going to just plan it so okay we're not going to have any uh gas available uh for a month or for two months or

for three hours you know see gas will only be available for um you know four hours a day or in the morning lunchtime and evening time for dinner the rest of the time you're going to have to use electric stuff so people will just have to cook get electric cooker or just cook when they can and use a microwave where i just just you know if it's just for like three months over three month period it's not it's definitely not ideal is it but not in the winter not when we rely so much upon the

gas i say we the you know the general population not everybody some people live on farms they live in places where they have they still have the wood burners i mean they still have wood burners which is something that was around in the you know 100 years ago 200 years ago still have wood burners can you believe it but they're the lucky ones because they're the ones that are going to be laughing because they'll be able to keep warm they have wood burners i mean blimey i thought it was i don't think it's even legal

in parts of the country not allowed to burn wood i might have made that bit up i don't know i've been to places where they had coal still i mean this is a few years back but like mining towns where they still had coal and they were still uh heating the whole house with coal burners but they're kind of like wood burners but with coal with coal yeah and the houses were lovely and warm i had a friend who had a beautiful house just just amazing he did it all himself he got it all built

and everything and he lived in this place where it was they were called re re refrags frag not frag or rock refrabricate fabricated houses so they were basically this is after the war uh this is my understanding and these houses were made out of old airplanes like aluminium and stuff like that and they were basically sheds but they did the job and people lived there and they were like lived on the mine they worked on the mines you know these little villages and they had a lot of these fabricated prefabs i think they call them

well my my former friend actually got together and managed to get the government or the local government anyway to rebuild the houses and to replace the fabricated with proper bricks and basically re rebuild the whole area like the roads and everything uh with proper houses and uh he ended up with a lovely house it was a bungalow but there's nothing more bungalows my dad lives in a bungalow i lived in a bungalow once that is my dad's bungalow that i lived in but i got no issues when i said it's a bungalow i haven't got

an issue with bungalows nobody's having a go at me dear jason so i live in a bungalow in belgium so you hate everything about me no i don't hate anything about you i love belgium and bungalows why why do you keep going on about it blimey it's an old it's not an old joke but it's a joke it's really i want to tell you but it's not my joke and it's i think it's one of the funniest jokes ever but it came i think it was rich hall i'm not going to tell you the jokes

i won't but man let me see if it's available online rich hall let me see if it's here i want to see um okay nope that's not i don't know where you'd find it it might even be something that he just threw away like a wasn't an important phone like it wasn't an important joke to him but it's so funny because i used to see him so often at the comedy club because he was he was just really popular rich hall is an american and apparently the bartender out of the simpsons the character was based

on him so and he was he was in um before he came to the uk and became like well known here which hall is it rich hall does say which hall yeah he was in america so he's 68 years old now so he would have been wow 68 now so what is it to what year is it 2068 58 48 44 so it would have been like in his middle 40s when i knew him i didn't know him but when i first met him i think he spoke to me once and that was a hello

i think that was it that's as far as i got but i saw him so often and it's very very funny so he was a prominent sketch comedian in the 1980s he wrote and performed to ranger american networks saturday night live he won the perrier award in 2000 in inebria using the character otis lee crenshaw which is his comedy character so before that he was always he was on the comedy circuit for i only really discovered him in the late 90s but he you know before 2000 let's say constantly like you could say at least

once a month he'd do a weekend at the comedy club i was at and he was so funny he was really really hilarious hilarious um hall's first refer that he was a he was a writer on the david letterman show in 1980 and then he regular on saturday night live for the show's 10th season 84 to 85 becoming it okay so he had his own showtime channel special vanishing america in 86 so he appeared he appeared lots of show you know tonight's show with johnny carson late show go brian david letterman blah blah i just

love a look outside he also received popularity in the united kingdom which is what he said to you that was like late 90s maybe middle 90s but i didn't i didn't experience him and experience him i didn't really get to know about him until the late 90s so he had this career in america and then uh oh he married someone from liverpool in 2004 so maybe that's why he came to england for maybe he met her while he was here i got i don't care what am i i don't care he made an irish tv

appearance as a guest on the fifth series of rts comedy program don't feed the gondolas um he achieved some popularity in australia because he went to the melbourne international comedy festival and the adelaide fringe okay so he got to be known there a frequent panelist the british panel show qi having appeared 25 times uh oh that's it he published a book of oh so he got his um he published a book otis lee crum crenshaw i blame society in 2007 he finished a screenplay for a film based on the book written for the diet and

directed for the based on the book written for the director mel smith and mel smith passed away mel smith 2013 said mel smith brilliant very funny he was comedy he was um like a comedy star in the uk and he also played wilt he was in wilt the tv show where's the where is it come on come on performer the young ones 87 unless it was the 90s was it 90s filmography actor okay here we go wilt wilt wilt wilt 1989 as inspector flint who played wilt then it was risk risk grief jones it was

oh okay who was his comedy partner and the other day i mentioned that my my old friend nick realty used uh he wrote for their tv show i don't know which would have been i'd say early 90s so let's have a little look what they did early 90s not the nine o'clock news ls smith and jones 1984 to 98 that's a long time isn't it that's over three and a half years now it's 14 years exactly over three and a half years i wonder if it says anything about i don't suppose it's going to say

who wrote for them is it no that's quite um i think writers writers for like comedians or you know sketch shows things like that i think that they'll be mentioned in the credits the written credits but quite often i don't like the stars of the shows probably don't want really it to be known that they're using writers and the writers probably necessarily don't not that bothered about being known unless they're looking to use it as a springboard i guess i guess i guess i don't know no one's ever asked me to be a comedy writer

for them i'm i'm guessing i'm just having a little guess but it's never gonna happen hmm probably not gonna happen but um mel smith was really good i was i was a fan of his and he passed he passed away um uh just i don't know you know as you get older um you look back kind of i'm i guess i've been influenced by television i would i'd hazard a guess that a lot of people have been influenced by television and i spent a lot of my childhood watching television because it was what was the

best word one of the best distractions i could get lost in the television i'm not even sure how often i was really watching it or if i was just daydreaming or falling asleep genuinely i don't know but television was my friend all through my childhood even early early early childhood when me and my two older brothers used to be in a flat on our own and i remember saturday afternoons and we'd be there we'd be there all day on our own watching tv so we get to watch the tv in the morning all the comp

you know all the well i got to watch whatever they watched basically because i was the youngest and then there'd be sport on in the afternoon and and it's weird because i still to this day i can't hear the football results without especially in the past um it's not so bad now because it's more digital and it's a bit more lively but they used to be the football results for like good old 30 odd years it used to be very similar and they'd be going like doncaster five and they just get it's very the monotone

and they'd go through every single one like that it'd be on the screen as well and for the next all the way through the eight because this was in the the you know early 70s really all the way through the 80s the 90s and all the way through the 80s 90s and 2000s 2010s even i couldn't listen to the football results i had to turn it off or turn it over but i saw it the other day and it's it's different now it's almost maybe i'm different it's uh it's a little bit more jollier it's

not so um and maybe i've you know it's been like that for a long time but it used to be so monotone and i know i'm not the right person to complain about people being monotone considering possibly how monotone i am sometimes with my boring monotone voice i do not have a monotone voice i can't believe you're telling me that i have a monotone voice why do you keep saying that i have a monotone voice when i clearly have a very expressive voice i don't understand what you say i'm not talking we must exterminate exterminate

the doctor exterminate exterminate i'll turn into a dalek it must exterminate it and relax so yeah um oh where is it wow a wilt see this is i should i get my wilt books hold a sec oh before that i'll show you this other thing right wait a sec oh right before i go into the wilt books i've been reading this book hypnotherapy for pain control a safe and non-addictive way to relieve chronic pain by jeffrey ennis md i'm into page 33 and he's still talking about his own illness 33 now i feel a little

bit guilty because he's dead so he died from his illness he died he had i think he had a rare neurological thing going on um now in when i bought the book from amazon it actually said on there it's a very it's very uh they said it's the most self-indulgent i've ever read don't bother all he does is talk about himself now i ignored that because i thought no that's not going to be you're not going to release a book just talking about yourself if it's you know for something like hypnotherapy for pain control unless

you're talking about your own pain control and how it's worked and you know but honestly it's page 33 and he hasn't moved away from himself yet he's briefly talked about other people but he keeps coming back to his own problems so um history of hypnosis starts on page 89 discovering hypnosis is page 81 so you know he's a i feel i mean i discovered it and he seems like he's a really really nice bloke well he was a really nice bloke and he would see every he'd always see someone he wouldn't turn them away this

was in america i think or canada and there was you know everyone has to pay for their for their you have to pay for for the medical care and he wouldn't turn people away he'd say at the very least get me a coffee and they'd see them so you know he was it was a good bloke and i realize i'm not in a position to judge someone for talking about themselves all the time because that's all i do basically isn't it so shut up okay i'll shut up put it there right the two books i've

got three i've got four books four books on uh from tom sharp tom sharp is a person that wrote writes these books and he wrote lots of books actually uh i would guess and again probably bad but he's probably dead yep died in 2013 age 85 thomas ridley sharp an english satirical novelist best known for his wilt series as well as poor house blue and blot on the landscape all the three were adapted for television see wilt wasn't adapted for television that was that was it i don't think so but um del boy from only

fools and horses he was in porterhouse blue and blot on the landscape let me just check porterhouse blue oh oh tv show let's have a look porterhouse blue david jason and blot on the landscape tv show no david jason wasn't in that george cole was in that one ah which is quite ironic because the two the two biggest tv blaggers dodgy salespeople in you know tv shows was george cole and david jason david jason as del boy and george cole as uh arthur daly george cole was so good i really loved him so okay so

anyway so you've got tom sharp he was born in holloway not holloway prison i'm guessing london and brought up in a croydon so he was born he must have he died at 85 so he must have been born 2013 wow so i'm guessing london was a lot different there than what it is now croydon was a lot different as well i'm guessing a lot less people um still must have been busy though i'm guessing london's always been busy it's gotta be it's just it's just the biggest one of the biggest cities in the world like

busiest cities rather maybe not biggest in size but it's i imagine it must have always been busy but maybe i'm wrong i don't know what the so look the history of croydon blimey this is getting even more boring than i thought croydon i know croydon but you i'm just going to let you know croydon is a large town in south london england that gives its name to the london borough of croydon is one of the largest commercial districts in greater london with an extensive shopping district and night time economy the entire town has a population

of 192 064 as of 2011 well that's what 12 years ago so 11 years ago that's that's under 50 years ago whilst the wider borough had a population of 384 837 that's the wider borough so it's the london borough of croydon it is weird london's weird like that has these boroughs like newham the borough of newham and you've got all these different places stratford leighton leighton stone uh i don't know different places and it's like it's confusing confuses me london c london bear bear bear bear okay it was originally okay it's 9.

4 miles south of charing cross it was originally part of the wallington hundred what on earth is that wallington hundred in the history county historic county of surrey at the time of the norman conquest of england croydon had a church a mill and around 365 inhabitants as recorded in the doomsday book of 10 10 86 isn't it weird right so they've gone from 365 inhabitants to 192 000 people let's rewind that 365 people in 10 86 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 so that's that's that's over 300 years um so that's quite

a long time and yeah you get the hang of this now yeah yeah good so croydon 300 that's just such a that's a lot of people um so yeah and it's weird is that the doomsday book when you think of the doomsday book you think of doomsday like really like a almost like a really bad thing um there isn't it's just a great survey it's just a census basically it's a survey of how many people are in different parts of the country that's all it was the doomsday it sounds really dark doesn't it like really

uh but it's not it's just trying to keep a track of who's who and where's where and whatever that didn't make sense it croydon expanded in the middle ages why are you telling us about croydon tell us about tom sharp and the wilt books i will i will and luckily i've got them in front of me to remind me so it expanded in the middle ages became a market town and was a center for charcoal production leather tanning and brewing the surrey iron railway from croydon to wandsworth opened in 1803 and was an early public

railway and later croydon became a commuter town for london and by the 20th century croydon was an important industrial area known for car manufacturing metalworking and croydon airport mid-20th century these sectors were replaced by retailing and the service economy which which unfortunately retailing is not doing so great with the internet and the service economy doesn't do so great if there's unless people have got money because it's all about service economy is things that you pay for that perhaps you don't need or perhaps you do need but you can kind of do without like restaurants and

cinemas and health spas and gyms and you know things like that even education which is weird i can't really do without education i mean that's why you that's why you listen to this because of the immense educational value yes um yeah so that's it let's go back on board now go away sharp whoa this is interesting sharp was born in holloway london and brought up in croydon sharp's father the reverend george coverdale sharp was a unitarian minister who was an active in far far right politics in the 1930s wow um yeah there's some other stuff

it says there perhaps i shouldn't read it out tottington lane 2021 yeah i'm gonna have to move along with that so anyway his father was quite right to far right in the 1930s which probably doesn't bode well anyway that's his father he's not responsible for that he but he did say something he hated a certain type certain people in a sense that he hated all corruption so he initially shared some of his father's views but was horrified on seeing films of the liberation of the um yeah after the war like so he kind of changed

his his opinion on stuff like that yeah it is that is enough definitely to wake you up to that stuff i think i remember seeing that at school um university of cambridge he was sharp was educated the thing is i'm i was quite lucky because i've always had a very different i think because i wasn't i didn't grow up with my dad from the age of zero to now if you know what i mean there was a big gap from the ages of three months maybe six months to just before i was seven where i

didn't really know him so because from the age of about six months i lived with foster parents and then till two and then my mom came back and got us and then my dad rescued us from the children's home when i was about just i literally was the summer of my seventh birthday so i i hadn't inherited unconsciously all of those opinions and stuff you know it didn't just go in because i hadn't really heard i don't remember hearing stuff like that i mean when i lived with a nurse with the um the nuns i

used to hear religious stuff and some pretty horrible stuff actually aimed at the kids and that but i don't i used to hear it so when i was about seven i'd hear the adults talking and this was a very um it was normal for the late 70s middle 70s late 70s 80s even for certain views social views to be aired in public like it was just it's what happened and anything that was a little bit different was laughed at or well people got angry about whether it was sexuality or whether it was ethnicity or religion

or whatever um so i kind of grew up with that in that kind of mentality of everything different is bad or is you know not necessarily everything different but i think we were quite um quite creative and quite adventurous when it came to new ice cream when cornells came out when soda stream came out i remember thinking yeah let's give that a go and everyone was up for that so maybe what we were progressive family but um i just didn't really agree with that stuff because i'd meet people i lived in a you know from

the age of seven to leave in school and then for a few years after that i lived in a little town and it was it was very sheltered from reality like a lot of reality um which of living in a city so i moved to london at the first opportunity and then you know i spent then i moved away again and i went back and i spent about 12 years living in london and so my whole younger years as a basic my whole all of my the first 12 years of my adult life was in

london as far as i'm concerned i wasn't an adult until probably 21 i was still a kid i really was i was probably still a kid even then but when i was a teenager i was a i was just like a child um even 18 19 i wasn't an adult i didn't feel like an adult i didn't act like an adult i didn't think like an adult there's nothing adult about me i was a child i was just still a kid it's weird really i was very um i was very backward really in a sense

of even physically growing up uh i just was uh didn't develop very quickly like um you know when i was in first and second year high school there was adult i was i had friends that were adults that were men and women you know there was like fully grown fully developed men and women i never got to see the women generally but you know i was in the changing rooms with the men and apart from the fact they had deep voices i don't need to go into the rest of it they were men they were

fully developed men not mentally but physically i really wasn't i was just a little like a little child and it's weird i didn't i kind of didn't care but i kind of did as well i remember i used to come down probably when i was about 13 and i was just like please let my voice please let my voice break and all i wanted was one voice to break and then i wake up and my voice would my throat would be a bit dry you know like there so i feel oh it's broken so like

that so the second one i said everyone hello everybody oh god damn it it's like it was just it was more phlegm than uh broken if you know what i mean and i don't remember what actually broke because i've always always had quite uh i've never had a deep voice never had a deep voice i never had a deep voice so that transition from a high-pitched voice to a deep manly voice never really happened with me it gradually i guess became deeper but it was never deep never and i never tried to make it deep

there's some people you know that the reason they got a deep voice what it feels to me like the reason they got a deep voice is because they forced it when they were younger they're like you know and that's become over time that's that's how they ended up talking i do it because they think that it's manly tough or whatever i wanted to be left i wanted a deep voice i really did i would say there's nothing i wanted more than a deep voice but that would be a lie there's plenty of things i wanted

more than a deep voice and some of those included a word deep no so i should look at the tom sharp books instead of looking at him i discovered tom sharp in the early 80s that's not right wait a second there's another book where is it there is another book because i've got the original wilk book those are books that are the follow ones where's the original wilk book well well well well well well that's annoying wilt where are you i don't know where it is it's got to be something oh there it is there

it is i knew that i'm glad i can trust it myself sometimes i've got five books by tom sharp and they're all wilt books so wilt is the first one and i'm not sure what order they go in but whoops oh come on just move along shut up i've got uh wilt on high the wilt alternative wilt in nowhere and the wilt inheritance now i read probably three of those books when i was in my early teens i say early teen probably probably 13 14 time and i discovered it and they had me laughing like

really laughing out loud and it's very descriptive visually descriptive uh tom sharp and i just i had them all i was a bit of a bookworm i would say was but you got five books yeah five books isn't a lot so more than five books but only five of his books i like books i don't i love books i do i can't help it i do i love them i love looking at them i love smelling them i love them taste i love kissing them i love cuddling them i love eating them no i don't

i do i love books i have since i was a kid loved loved loved books and i got that book i told you didn't i did i tell you wait a minute where is it where is it oh come on come on come on oh where did i put it there it is i found it i ordered this online i'm pretty i'm sure i mentioned it this is the first book i ever had in my entire life called Jackanory Jack Stories it's basically Jackanory books uh stories about different stories about jack there's jack the giant

killer lucky jack prince jack lazy jack and jack and the beanstalk so um this is really good quality but it's original 20 pence it's cost and so what year it is okay so this isn't the original but it was 1972 so first published 1968 reprinted 1969 and then 1972 this is the 1972 version and i probably inherited it well i think basically what it was when i was in the kids home there was a jumble sale and i've told you this story possibly anyway but this is supposed to be boring so i'll tell you again

there was a jumble sale and i went along to see if i could grab something for myself and they said i said i saw this book enough can i have that and they said bearing in mind that it was 20 pence new and it wouldn't have been new it was it was donated um and it's 1972 so so at this time probably look at it uh 1975 76 probably 1976 probably so this was already like you know four years old or something and the lady gave it to me because i had no money and uh

so she'd i i think she said you can have it either that or i stole it i'm not sure i think she i think she did say you can have it and i did and this was my pride and joy this book my pride i loved this book i would carry it around and it's weird because i i didn't realize how little it was because you know i was tiny wasn't i i was tinier than you imagine i was at six i probably was the size of a four-year-old i wasn't big i was maybe not

four but you know i was very small for my age and i can't tell you 100 but i'm pretty sure i learned to read properly with this book and i've got this uh the rhyme is in my head i'll read it off here but i don't need to read it because it's in my head and i'll tell you a story about jack and orion now my story's begun i'll tell you a story about jack and his brother and now my story's done and it says under here the rhyme is very old no one knows for

certain or when it was written or who jack and orion was but although he couldn't tell that story lee montagu did tell five other stories about people called jack in the jack and orion program they're all in this book jack the giant killer lucky jack and everything but this is a bbc tv book so it says as told by jack in jack and ory by lee montagu so that's my um i don't have mixed feelings about that it's just weird i mean it's literally 1972 this book it's not a reprint it's an original the original

one there may have been millions of these you know jack and ory was a very popular tv show but it's very strange that it's such good quality such good you know no missing pages it's all together it looks like it's been even the sides are not really bent looks like it's been flat packed in a box for the last blimey that's like 50 years isn't it like it's just been in a box for 50 years and then someone brought it out um no it is fraying a bit in the corner actually yeah i just saw

this the bottom bit is wearing off a little bit but i wait a minute seven pages have fallen out and well no i can't actually read any of it because it's black the whole thing's just it's just one it's it's basically ashes i really should become more observant so yeah i used to love that book and sometimes i'd think about it and i think well did it is it true not the store not the stories about jack but did it did i really have that book and i can remember that rhyme and i've checked online

and yeah the light the rhyme exists and eventually it kind of led me to that book and yeah so i've now got the first ever book in my memory that i ever owned it's probably not the first book i ever looked at or touched because i was at school so i would have touched books at school and i would have touched the bible and living with nuns and that so that's the first book i owned that was mine first thing that i think i owned i don't remember owning anything we used to share toys at

the you know in the children's home we'd have like a room with some toys in it and we'd share them i don't think we really had a chance to keep stuff for ourselves that's my memory i mean not sure if he's right or not but jack and nori it's weird because i've got that book and my oldest book that i've had since 90 oh 93 maybe 92 which is my um book of the buddhist buddha's teachings and that's the only book that has survived my all the different transitions and places i've lived and moved and

all the different times i've been homeless and whatever that that stayed with me it's the only book that's survived the journey you know and i've still got it now so that's that's what is that 30 30 odd years 30 years yeah 30 years i've had that book it might have been 92 93 even 92 or 93 i would say and i had quite a nice collection of buddhist books zen books daoist books you know it's nice collection and then i sold them before moving to i think before moving to either ireland or butlins i'm not

sure ah that's a good question so i'm just thinking to myself now anyway i'm gonna go so these if you ever do like fancy reading a i think they were funny tom sharp his name is t-o-m-s-h-a-r-p-e and the books are basically wilt w-i-l-t and i just think it was funny um okay this is critical responses someone michelle michael durda said in an interview tom sharp is very funny but exceptionally vulgar crude and offensive many view him as britain's funniest living novelist most people feel that his first two novels set in fictionalized south africa are his

best righteous assembly and indecent exposure oh okay that obviously that's not will is it uh someone else wrote that sharp humorous techniques naturally derive from his fundamental approach which is that of the furious fucker not sure what that means who compounds anger and amusement and his dialogue is deft and more restrained than his characterizations which sometimes is mere caricature actually also a bit better oh well all i can say is they're funny i need to check that righteous assembly and indecent exposure and then porterhouse blue so they were at porterhouse blue so they was all

in the 70s wilt didn't come out in 76 then 79 the wilt alternative wilt on high 1984 will in nowhere 2004 and then the will inheritance 2010 i've literally got all of the wilt books all five of them there was a fifth but it is wilt in triplicate which was basically the first three books all in one go and then 2004 2010 he wrote more books blimey isn't that interesting why do i'm thinking that indecent exposure is something that i've heard of no set satirical the sequel to righteous assembly the office all right i might

have to check them out because it looks like i'm gonna be funny so i'm gonna go now gonna go thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy remember to be gentle with yourself just be gentle give it a go you might like it yeah just be gentle man just just chill out if you can if you can give it a go just relax take it easy and i shall return again probably tomorrow thanks for listening lots of love bye