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Meet David Sedaris: Series 9: 1. Happy Go Lucky

1. Happy Go Lucky

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The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller with his blend of wit & wisdom

This instalment from the Sedaris files includes his essay Happy Go Lucky and extracts from his extensive diaries read to a packed house at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill, London.

“If something is in Esquire and you don’t like it, it might be a bad essay. If something is in the New Yorker and you don’t like it – there’s something wrong with you!” 

In the first episode of this series, David reads from Happy Go Lucky – the latest comic essay about his turbulent relationship with his father, Lou, aged 98. The story opens at Springmoor, the assisted living facility where Sedaris senior is seeing out his final days and where his cognitive impairment seems to have turned him from a monster into a pussycat. 

Also in this show – some extracts from David’s hilarious diary, which he’s kept for over 40 years and which reveals some of his darkest and cheekiest thoughts – including the magical marketing of a town called Uranus.

Producer: Steve Doherty
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Meet David Sedaris: Series 9

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

American humorist David Sedaris reads from his extensive collection of comedy essay.

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