Comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker charts his 30 years in showbiz.
Danny Baker was born in Deptford in South East London. He has worked on magazines and radio for over 30 years and currently presents on BBC London 94.9 and BBC Radio 5 Live.
Full of warmth and laughter
*Daily Mirror*
Joie de vivre, this Teflon spirit, is the engine that drives this
memoir....Indeed, throughout this tome, Baker doesn't so much drop
famous names as fire them at you with a cannon for seemingly no
other reason than to amuse and entertain with top-notch
anecdotes... This book is a hoot, buzzing with Baker's impressive
recall and nuclear-strength warmth and humour. Going to Sea in a
Sieve emerges not only as a portrait of Baker the individual, but
also as a hymn to bygone times that is as affectionate as it is
brutally unsentimental and hilarious. The perfect read for anyone
interested in music, football, media, British cultural history, or
indeed just having a really good laugh.
*THE OBSERVER*
Like its author, Baker's book is garrulous, preening, self-mocking
and funny. It's as rattling to read as it evidently was to write.
In the proud Baker tradition, it's a bit of a knockout.
*NEW STATESMAN*
These memoirs, which cover his childhood and early career burst
with warmth and encounters with the famous, from Marc Bolan to Kate
Bush.
*BELFAST TELEGRAPH*
An instant ray of sunshine in these dank days of winter.
*METRO*
Witty, sharp and hilarious, it's like you're chatting with a mate
in the pub.
*METRO*
A beautifully written memoir
*THE INDEPENDENT*
Baker writes as he speaks, with honesty and infectious joie de
vivre.
*SUNDAY EXPRESS*
Rollicking first instalment of the life story of the broadcaster,
covering his childhood in southeast London's Deptford and working
as a pop critic and a 'yoof-for-hire' on TV.
*SAGA*
Reading Baker's memoirs feels a bit like flying transatlantic with
an irrepressibly garrulous stranger....the alacrity and invention
of his mind is obvious.
*Mojo*
I'm 50 pages into Danny Baker's Going to Sea in a Sieve and it's
making me bark.
*The Observer Books of the Year 2012*
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