How Not to Be a Boy

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Richard Hamilton

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How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb: 3. Heartbreak

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3. Heartbreak

How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb

BBC Radio 4 Extra - How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb, 3. Heartbreak

In Robert Webb's funny and moving memoir, heartbreak marks his teenage years.

The comic actor’s sixth form years are marked by the burden of his virginity – and heartbreak interrupts the laughter.

It's the beginning of the sixth form and Robert's vexed diaries reveal that his virginity is weighing him down. 

But it's not long before the laughter is brought to an abrupt stop by heartbreak.

Robert Webb continues his own funny and moving memoir.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton.

Producer: Elizabeth Allard.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017.

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Robert Webb reads his funny and moving memoir, which looks back on his bittersweet childhood in Lincolnshire and also has wise words on masculinity's pitfalls.

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