Andy and John are joined by Jonathan Coe, author of the internationally acclaimed novels The Rotter's Club and Oh! What A Carve Up! to discuss the life and work of his friend and mentor, David Nobbs, best known as the creator of Reginald Perrin.

Books Mentioned:

Andrew Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
Samuel Beckett - Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress
Charles Dickens - The Holly Tree, Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings
Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens: A Life
Jonathan Coe - What A Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, House of Sleep, Like a Fiery Elephant, Number Eleven
David Nobbs - I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today, It Had to Be You, Cupid’s Dart, Obstacles to Young Love, The Death of Reginald Perrin/ The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Better World of Reginald Perrin, Ostrich Country

Other Links:

Joyce Reading Finnegans Wake
Holly Tree Inn allegedly set up after hearing Dickens reading
David Nobbs sketch for The Two Ronnies
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
British Humanist Association
“I believe there are just as many Christian virtues to be found among the faithless as the faithful…I gained faith in people”