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Book of the Week: Jennifer Saunders - Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

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Jennifer Saunders - Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

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From her beginnings on the comedy circuit in 1981, Jennifer Saunders's honest memoir.

From her beginnings on the comedy circuit in 1981, the award-winning comedienne Jennifer Saunders reads her funny and honest memoir. From October 2013.

In Bonkers: A Life in Laughs award winning comedian, Jennifer Saunders, recollects a life filled with laughter and the occasional bit of heartache, but very little misery. Today, it is 1981 and life on the comedy circuit begins.

Jennifer Saunders has been making us laugh for three decades and is best known for the long running sketch show French and Saunders which she co-wrote and starred in with her comedy partner, Dawn French. Later she created the worldwide hit series Absolutely Fabulous in which she also played champagne swilling, Edina Monsoon. She has won three BAFTAs (including the Bafta Fellowship), an International Emmy, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or, two Writers' Guild Awards and a People's Choice Award.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton.
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Jennifer Saunders reads her funny, honest and touching memoir

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