How a fishmonger’s son growing up on Tyneside (with a Geordie accent) became the person who recorded over 900 (and counting) audiobooks and got the MBE from the Queen for it. A ‘Billy Elliot” story that’s ‘heart-warming’ and ‘inspirational’. As Miriam Margolyes says on the back cover: “a witty and moving memoir of how a working class boy becomes THE voice of the spoken word. An honest and vivid account plus excellent advice for those of us who work with words..”