Born Lippy

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Born Lippy by Jo Brand: 2. Love and Friendship

2. Love and Friendship

Born Lippy by Jo Brand

BBC Radio 4 - Born Lippy by Jo Brand, 2. Love and Friendship

Jo Brand turns advice giver as she unflinchingly tackles love and friendship.

Jo Brand turns advice giver in a typically irreverent guide to life with her five golden rules for keeping friends.

Jo turns unflinchingly to love and friendship. 

This includes the story of an unsuitable teenage boyfriend and the appalling poetry he inspired, as well as Jo’s five golden rules for keeping friends (even if they do say you look like Brian Blessed in drag).    

Jo Brand turns advice giver in a typically irreverent guide to life. 

She says she's messed up enough times to feel confident she has no wisdom to offer anyone. But who cares? She's doing it anyway.

Jo’s memoir reveals a side of herself that we don’t normally hear - the things she wishes she'd known and the things she hopes for the future. 

As you’d expect, she pulls no punches.

Written and read by Jo Brand. 

Abridged and produced by Pippa Vaughan

A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.

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'Born Lippy, How to do Female' is Jo Brand's darkly funny guide to life.

Jo Brand's darkly funny guide to life subverts the traditional memoir; packing together memorable anecdotes from her life with typical Brand-like witty, pithy advice.

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