Charlie Higson: James Bond, The Fast Show & Stacey’s Gang Bang Wedding

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This week on the show we're finding some home truths about the comedian, actor, writer and Fast Show LEGEND Charlie Higson.

What starts with a gardening book quickly leads to a crumbling 14th-century Italian ruin, a brief flirtation with writing anonymous pornography, an obsession with James Bond, and a passionate defence of properly synchronised TV sound which frankly needs to form the basis of a new political party.

Along the way Charlie reveals:

• How he accidentally became the Young James Bond author

• Why Ian Fleming’s family made him remove a dog from Bond’s life

• The truth about restoring a house in southern Italy

• Why writing fight scenes is harder than writing sex scenes

• His love of westerns, Bernard Cornwell and Michael Connelly

• The Fast Show live tour, audience participation, and the strangest thing to happen at an Only Fools and Horses performance

• Why every writer should spend more time in the bath

There’s also discussion of failed greenhouses, cowboy school projects, pub quizzes, ergonomic keyboards, zombie apocalypses and one particularly memorable book called Stacey’s Gang Bang Wedding.

A genuinely fascinating conversation with one of Britain’s most successful comedy writers and bestselling authors.

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