How Not to Be a Boy (Omnibus)

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How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb (Omnibus)

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Robert Webb's funny and moving memoir also explores masculinity's pitfalls.

Award winning comic Robert Webb reads his funny and moving memoir which shares wise words on masculinity’s pitfalls. From 2017.

Comedian, actor and writer Robert Webb reads his memoir that is both laugh out loud funny and powerfully moving and tender. 

He’s best known for his work with David Mitchell in BBC Radio 4's award-winning That Mitchell and Webb Sound and Channel 4’s Peep Show.

Omnibus in five parts abridged by Richard Hamilton.

An uneasy early childhood growing up in Lincolnshire, is followed by schoolboy crushes on girls and boys, to discovering a talent for making people laugh, to grief, and to becoming a husband and father.

As his life story unfolds, Robert questions the expectations thrust on boys and men and reflects on how these have shaped the man he is today.

Written and read by Robert Webb.

Producer:  Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.

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