Well, what a merry Christmas this now shall be for you all! At the ten-and-a-halfth-hour, Audible has finally announced the arrival of the FIRST EVER audiobook recording of the entirety of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain – a totally insane epic tissue of fantasies written by a Norman monk 900 years…
MACBETH*: Something wicked for Hallowe’en/Samhain!
We went all the way up to Northern Scotland for our holiday, and all we got to show for it was this tour of the sites of the real-life Macbethad mac Findláech! https://youtu.be/BfS9Yd0HjV4 HAPPY HALLOWE'EN! OR SAMHAIN IF YOU PREFER!*Hot potato, Oxon stalls, Puck will make amends!
TALES OF BRITAIN: Summer 2025
Happy encroachment of the season of mists and mellow fruitiness to all! Something wicked this way comes… Firstly, I can't pretend that this year's Edinburgh Fringe outing for Tales of Britain was a huge success – choosing a LGBT+-friendly venue was important to us, but it was a bit of a shock to realise that…
HISTORIES OF BRITAIN is here!
Good heavens to Bertha, I seem to have made history! Which is to say, I have somehow managed to publish a whole second book AND recorded and edited an entire audiobook within the same year as my gorgeous official Fry & Laurie history SOUPY TWISTS! My most committed FANS – hi, Tiddles! – may have…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Spring 2025
Or: GRIM TALES OF BRITAIN! This year's remaining gig list may not be extensive, but I can tell you that Brother Bernard is absolutely somersetting with glee about two Tales of Britain shows lined up for later in the summer. Thirdly, we're headed back to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in seven or…
SOUPY TWISTS: 7th Surprise Bit
SOUPY TWISTS! A BIT OF A SAGA: • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • STOP PRESS! AUDIOBOOK IS NOW LIVE, LOVES! https://youtu.be/va38hl1qpcQ?si=m0iYpYMU7uC6CTzX Weeeeeeell for all the sakes of goodness, let me expound, expose and exposit. May I? I think it would be useful to backtrack somewhat. Can it truly…
Loving Tony Slattery Longtime
I was clearly not alone in there being a certain degree of complex aesthetic approval of the late and very very great Tony Slattery as a teen in the 90s – in fact, since the news broke of his fatal heart attack at the weekend, the 'my god he was dishy' tributes have been so…
Get It Right: Audiobook Perfectionism
Just a little housekeeping squib of an update from me in these somewhat seismic times of upheaval here in Writhlington BA3. On one positive note, those lovely people at Erudio have cancelled my student loan after 25 glorious years of never earning enough to pay back the few grand I begged back in 1999; at…
TALES OF BRITAIN: Summer 2024
... Or 'What Brother Bernard Did On His Holidays'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvjkVScFuc After the mixed fortunes of a couple of storytelling gigs early in the summer, in Ludlow and Midsomer Norton (there are fresh shows planned for Halloween! Keep an eye on our socials for details!), a nostalgic tour of North Wales beckoned… First we enjoyed two…
MY DEBUT NOVEL
I recently found myself bewailing the fact that my last book release, Fab Fools, was over four years ago, and even that was released under lockdown. Currently I'm being massively mishandled in my quest to find a paperback home for one of my existing books. And although I started researching a new comedy history book…
Jem Roberts 