I'm Alan Partridge Quiz & Trivia Book

Mark McCaighey

Description

Aha! It's 'The I'm Alan Partridge Quiz & Trivia Book' 100 questions featuring Norwich's very own broadcasting legend and embarrassing son. Test your knowledge on all twelve episodes of 'I'm Alan Partridge' from his pro-longed stay at the Linton Travel Tavern to his static caravan days with Sonja, his Ukrainian girlfriend. This excellent book also has a 'Fact of the Day' accompanying each episode and in 'Partridge's Particles' some of the key moments in the life of the nation's favourite broadcaster are highlighted. Needless to say, 'The I'm Alan Partridge Quiz & Trivia Book' will entertain and inform (just like Alan himself) and is an absolute must-have for Partridge fans of all ages.

Sujets

• Humour

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783332878
• Langue: English

Extrait

Title Page
THE I’M ALAN PARTRIDGE QUIZ & TRIVIA BOOK
100 Questions Featuring Norwich’s Very Own Embarrassing Son.

By
Mark McCaighey



Publisher Information
The I’m Alan Partridge Quiz & Trivia Book
Published in 2013 by Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Copyright © 2013 Mark McCaighey
The right of Mark McCaighey to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Cover design by John McCaighey.
Cover photo by REX/Brian J. Ritchie/Hotsauce



The I’m Alan Partridge Quiz & Trivia Book
Norwich sports reporter Alan Partridge first flew into our lives in 1991 on the Radio 4 news show ‘On the Hour’ which ran for two series. In 1992 his big break arrived when he landed his own chat show ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ again on Radio 4. The title displaying his love for the Swedish pop group Abba. Fans were able to put a face to the voice when in 1994 both his chat show and his sports reporting from ‘On the Hour’ (“they’ve rebadged it, you fool” to ‘The Day Today’ ) came to BBC2.
But sadly his TV chat show days were cut short, just like the life of restaurant critic Forbes McAllister, the guest on his final show who he accidentally shot dead with an antique pistol. But despite that fatal career bombshell, he bounced back onto our tellies to host ‘Knowing Me, Knowing Yule’ a Christmas special of his chat show in 1995. Unfortunately, it all went pear-shaped for Partridge again when during the festive forty-five minutes he punched his guest Tony Hayers, the new Chief Commissioning Editor of BBC Television with a dead turkey.
Two years later we learn in ‘I’m Alan Partridge’ that his career wasn’t completely dead, despite having been placed in the graveyard slot (4.30 - 7.00 am) on Radio Norwich with ‘Up with the Partridge’ . He was still keeping afloat with video presentations such as the one for ‘Hamilton’s Water Breaks’ . As for his private life, he was now living in the Linton Travel Tavern having been kicked out by his wife Carol and practically rejected by his two children Fernando and Denise.
By the second series of ‘I’m Alan Partridge’ in 2002, his career and private life had taken an upward turn (albeit somewhat short 180 degrees) after having suffered a nervous breakdown during the intervening years. He now had the third best slot on Radio Norwich with ‘Norfolk Nights’ and gained a 33 year-old Ukrainian girlfriend called Sonja. He no longer lived in the travel tavern, but in a static caravan outside his partially built dream home. In recognition of having placed his life back on track, he penned an autobiography entitled ‘Bouncing Back’ . But thanks to a mainly disinterested public, the majority of the copies bounced back to the publishers for pulping.
In 2010, Alan began hosting ‘Mid-morning Matters’ from Mondays to Fridays on North Norfolk Digital with Sidekick Simon (a Lab Technician whom Alan met in a pub). Although it’s a local show, it is beamed via a studio webcam to a potential worldwide audience. On the programme, Alan and Simon have tackled such hot topics as which condiment would you choose if you were stranded on a desert island and how often you should wash your towels.
Alan’s rollercoaster career reached new heights in 2013, when aged 55 he became a big screen action hero in ‘Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa’ . This unlikely status happened by accident rather than design. It was just another day at North Norfolk Digital for Alan, when he got caught up in a hostage crisis situation when sacked colleague Pat ran amok with a shotgun. Believing Alan to be his loyal friend, Pat chose him to be the chief hostage negotiator. As the worldwide media attention grew on the situation, Alan lapped it up and in the process went from Partridge to Segal emerging as Norwich’s very own man of action.
Needless to say, we haven’t had the last laugh yet.



Coogan’s Stuff
Alan’s younger alter-ego Steve Coogan was born in Middleton, Lancashire, on the 14 th of October 1965. He was the fourth of seven children from an Irish working class family. He attended the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre, where in his first year he met third year student Simon Greenall. This friendship lead to Steve’s first break, when Simon recognizing his talent for impressions gave him a role in a Radio Manchester comedy sketch show entitled ‘The Buzz’.
Wider recognition followed with the eighties satirical puppet show ‘Spitting Image’ where he provided many impressions from Prince Charles to Paul Daniels. However, Steve’s greatest success came as a comedy performer and an early national outing for this was in 1993 on the Channel 4 late-night variety show ‘Saturday Zoo’ . Here he made several appearances as Paul Calf, an unemployed Mancunian wastrel. Over the years Steve has delivered many other comedy characters in both live stage shows and on television, they include: Paul’s