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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   'Gone Before Goodbye' - a collaboration between award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon and #1 international bestselling writer Harlan Coben.   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over    Gone Before Goodbye A: Reese Witherspoon, Harlan Coben N: Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon,  N: James Fouhey, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Peter Ganim Saskia Maarleveld, Suehyla El-Attar Young R: 23-10-25 L: 10 hrs and 31 mins P: Penguin Audio   (and a little bit of…)    Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   A Mind of My Own A: Kathy Burke N: Kathy Burke L: 9 hrs and 30 mins R: 23-10-25 L: 9 hrs and 30 mins P: Simon & Schuster Audio UK Biographies & Memoirs

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   The one…   The only…   Ozzy Osbourne   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over    Last Rites A: Ozzy Osbourne N: Ian Danter L: 10 hrs and 15 mins R: 07-10-25 L: English R: 07-10-25L: 10 hrs and 15 mins P: Little, Brown Audio   Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   Gone Before Goodbye A: Reese Witherspoon, Harlan Coben N: Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon,  N: James Fouhey, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Peter Ganim Saskia Maarleveld, Suehyla El-Attar Young R: 23-10-25 L: 10 hrs and 31 mins P: Penguin Audio  

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   "A little bit of politics ladies and gentlemen - yes indeed!"   Writer and comedian Ben Elton's brand new autobiography.   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over    What Have I Done? My Autobiography A: Ben Elton N: Ben Elton R: 09-10-25 L: 15 hrs and 59 mins P: Macmillan   Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   Last Rites A: Ozzy Osbourne N: Ian Danter L: 10 hrs and 15 mins R: 07-10-25 L: English R: 07-10-25 L: 10 hrs and 15 mins P: Little, Brown Audio  

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   The man who invented the internet - Sir Tim Berners Lee   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over    This Is for Everyone The Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web A: Tim Berners-Lee N: Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee L: 11 hrs and 39 mins R: 09-09-25 P: Macmillan Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   What Have I Done? My Autobiography A: Ben Elton N: Ben Elton R: 09-10-25 L: 15 hrs and 59 mins P: Macmillan  

  On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   The new, refreshingly uncinematic novel from national treasure Bob Mortimer   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over    The Long Shoe A: Bob Mortimer N: Bob Mortimer, Diane Morgan, Arabella Weir R: 09-10-25 L: 7 hrs and 25 mins P: Simon & Schuster Audio UK Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub: This Is for Everyone The Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web A: Tim Berners-Lee N: Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee L: 11 hrs and 39 mins R: 09-09-25 P: Macmillan  

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   The story of the altar boy from Tuskegee, Alabama who grew up to be a global superstar   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over    Truly A: Lionel Richie N: Lionel Richie R: 30-09-25 L: 8 hrs and 57 mins P: William Collins   Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub: The Long Shoe A: Bob Mortimer N: Bob Mortimer, Diane Morgan, Arabella Weir R: 09-10-25 L: 7 hrs and 25 mins P: Simon & Schuster Audio UK  

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   The return of Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim in the latest instalment of Richard Osman's multi-million-selling Thursday Murder Club series   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over 'The Impossible Fortune' by Richard Osman   The Impossible Fortune A: Richard Osman N: Fiona Shaw R; 25 Sept R: 25-09-25 P: Penguin Audio   Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub: Truly A: Lionel Richie N: Lionel Richie R: 30-09-25 L: 8 hrs and 57 mins P: William Collins  

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   The return of Jackson Lamb and his stable of Slough House Slow Horses    Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over 'Clown Town' by Mick Herron   Clown Town - Slough House Book 9 A: Mick Herron N: Sean Barrett L: 12 hrs and 6 mins R: 11-09-25 P: Baskerville Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub: The Impossible Fortune A: Richard Osman N: Fiona Shaw R; 25 Sept R: 25-09-25 P: Penguin Audio

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   THE SMELL OF DEATH!   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over the first new novel in eight years from the author of The Da Vinci Code   The Secret of Secrets Robert Langdon Book 6 A: Dan Brown N: Paul Michael L: 22 hrs and 50 mins R: 09-09-25 P: Penguin Audio   #Literature #Fiction Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   Clown Town Slough House, Book 9 A: Mick Herron N: Sean Barrett R: 11-09-25 L: 12 hrs and 6 mins P: Baskerville #Mystery #Thriller #Suspense  

On this episode of #AudioBookClub: The first novel from international best-selling author - and former junior doctor - Adam Kay. Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks. On this week's episode we are casting an ear over 'A Particularly Nasty Case' - by  Adam Kay A Particularly Nasty Case A: Adam Kay N: Andy Serkis R: 28-08-25 L: 10 hrs and 9 mins P: Orion #Literature #Fiction Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   The Secret of Secrets Robert Langdon Book 6 A: Dan Brown N: Paul Michael L: 22 hrs and 50 mins R: 09-09-25 P: Penguin Audio #Literature #Fiction

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   'Their trousers all fell down!"   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over Andrew Lownie's joint biography of The Duke and Duchess of York.   Entitled The Rise and Fall of the House of York A: Andrew Lownie N: Andrew Lownie R: 14-08-25 L: 11 hrs and 40 mins P: William Collins #Biographies & #Memoirs Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   A Particularly Nasty Case A: Adam Kay N: Andy Serkis R: 28-08-25 L: 10 hrs and 9 mins P: Orion #Literature #Fiction   TRANSCRIPT Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton discuss Audiobook Club on this podcast Matthew Layton: Audiobook Club with Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton. Steve Phillips: On this episode of Audiobook Club. The grand old Duke of York was once a very naughty boy. Speaker C: Andrew quickly grew into the classic spoil brat. Aware of his high rank from an early age. Arrogant and overbearing, he would order staff about and according to one member of staff, be a bloody nuisance. Even the Queen described him as a bit of a handful. He was fond of practical jokes, hiding knives and forks when a footman was laying the table, tying the shoelaces of centuries, teasing his grandmother and reputedly an Anglican bishop at Balmoral as well, with a whoopee cushion, putting itching powder into his mother's bed, turning the aerial at Buckingham palace so she could not watch the racing at sundown, and putting washing up liquid in the palace pool. A valuable silver tray was used as a toboggan for sliding down palace stairs, and he would pedal furiously up and down the long red carpeted corridors on his tricycle. Almost from the beginning, he felt a strong sense of entitlement with fawning staff, lavish homes, chauffeured cars, and showed himself to be wilful, exuberant, gregarious, undisciplined and aggressive, and possessed of a limited attention span. Evelyn Muir Bell, who worked at Windsor, between 1973 and 1995, remembered him as the most troublesome royal, a tiresome little shit. Matthew Layton: Audiobook Club with Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton. Steve Phillips: Hello and welcome to Audiobook Club, the podcast about audiobooks that loves pizza express and sports. Sweats like a pig. Matt. Hi, Matt. Matthew Layton: Hello, Steve. I love making you say things. Steve Phillips: Yes. Yeah, I just sight read that. Matthew Layton: Still fun. Well, welcome back. Steve Phillips: yeah, well, welcome, welcome back, welcome back. Here we are, Season three. I did want to say a welcome back to Audiobook Club, where this week we're going through a lot of princely sums. But you came up with something much more highbrow than I ever did. Matthew Layton: yes, well, that's my job, isn't it? No, it's more low brow. I'm nothing but, but filthy low brow and smutty. oh, speaking of which, that leads me, on to another little clip I prepared that I didn't think I was gonna get the chance to play, but write up your strasse. Here is a, list of the guests from the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York, or Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, as she was until that point. that I thought you, you might enjoy. Speaker C: Almost 2,000 guests had filled the abbey, among them, Nancy Reagan, the racing driver, Jackie Stewart, the comedian Billy Connolly and his actress wife Pamela Stevenson. Elton John and his wife Renata, Michael and Shakira Kane, Barry Humphries, the American comedian Joan Rivers and the actor Anthony Andrews as well as foreign royals, aristocrats and the great and the good. Matthew Layton: How's that for Elton John and his wife Renata? That dates it, doesn't it? Steve Phillips: That's going back a little bit, isn't it? The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lowney Well you may have noticed there dear listener, that this week we're casting an ear over entitled the Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lowney, narrated by the author, came out a couple of weeks ago as we record it's a stonking 11 hours and 40 minutes and published by William Collins and ah, this is fair to say, has set the. Well has set the. The audio book club world alight. It's the bestseller at the minute and and I'd be very remiss if we didn't cast an ear over the House of York in this week's episode. Matthew Layton: It came to my attention because a couple of weeks ago, just as the book was being released, I think the Release date was 18th of August. I'll have a look at that in a minute and confirm. but Andrew Lanley who I'd never heard of before was on many of the things that I listen to basically tearing the Duke of York a new one. And you and I having worked at the BBC, we know how these things work. If you want to plug your book you would better on Radio 5 live or BBC Breakfast or you know a newsy type programme. You've got to have a newsline. And of course the Epstein story that refuses to go away from Trump is linked to this. so the timing must have been magnificent For Lonely and his publishers that was great. So that's why I was drawn to the book. It didn't turn out to be what I expected but yeah, do expand. Steve Phillips: Do you want to expand on that now or should we park that for a little bit? Matthew Layton: Let's park that for a little bit but let's start. Chelsea Bridge is doing a biography about Duke and Duchess of York So this whole book is about the Duke and Duchess of York and their story from And even it tells both of their childhood stories as you heard from that clip in the beginning. What I've done Steve, is I'm going to ask you a question and it is her first question is have you read the book? Steve Phillips: yes, pretty much. Matthew Layton: Okay, yeah, that doesn't matter. It's almost better if you're not. So I put in the script if you scroll down to the bit where it says bance, I've given you a little visual guide. Oh, they're all there off the top of your head. What do you think of when you see. Just use it as a tool. Pretend you haven't. Pretend to the listener not giving you basically a four stage crutch. Yeah. What do you think of. We think of Prince Andrew. Steve Phillips: Steve, did you say crutch? Sorry, the line's very bad at the moment. Matthew Layton: Get off with it. Steve Phillips: well, yes, I mean this is. Matthew Layton: Well, no. What do you, what do you think, what do you think when I say Prince Andrew is what I'm trying to ask? Steve Phillips: Well, I think you summed it up in these four pictures. Shall I explain what these four pictures are? Matthew Layton: No. Pretend you haven't seen the four pictures. Steve Phillips: No. Matthew Layton: And, but I'm just giving you a little visual. The four pictures that I put up there do not exist. Just I thought they might remind you of. They might trigger something in your memory and some wise words and perhaps a historical overview or, or you can just describe the pictures. Whichever you want to do really. Steve Phillips: Well, you know me, I'm nothing if not base and simplistic. But yes, essentially, essentially Prince Andrew, the second son of the Queen. Doing a biography about Prince Andrew here. If anyone's, if no one's heard of Prince Andrew, you've come to the right place, I'll explain for you. But yeah, yeah, second son of the Queen and you know, he had a career, well I thought a distinguished career in the Royal Navy. He knocked it out the park in the Falklands and so on, got married to Sarah Ferguson, got slightly unmarried to Sarah Ferguson and then just went absolutely nuts everywhere. And frankly this book turned out, well, I don't know, a book in sort of. It's a game of two halves really, or quarters actually, because it's a double biography of both Sarah and Andrew. and it dives both into the financial sector and the private life sector and the behaviour sector and the financial sector. I don't know about you but, but it just felt like, like five and a half hour reading out of invoices. Matthew Layton: Do you know what? that is exactly where I was going to conclude this episode. But I also remember that not everybody remembers Prince, Andrew the way that we do. In fact, you made my point in that for a British listener, he's ubiquitous. For an American listener who vaguely knows of the royal family and has, has realised that Prince Andrew is linked to the, the Epstein files that supposedly don't exist or do, let's not get into that. For somebody like that, those four images that I sent you would mean nothing. So for me, yeah, you're right. Well, I remember him in a naval uniform going to the Falklands War. And that was about the time of Royal wedding number one, early 80s, where Prince Charles married Diana. About five years later, we had another royal wedding. When I was a kid, I thought these happened all the time. And he married Sarah Ferguson, who, we were told that, and a shiny redhead, you know, beautiful wedding, whatever, big ceremony. And we were told, though, various things. She was, she was a bit common, even though, I mean, I'm pretty posh, but I think she's even posher than me. But the whole idea that a woman who didn't conform to the rules, liked to drink and a smoke and, and, was cheeky. Even though she went to very posh boarding school. Her father played polo and her whole life from this book at that time, seems she doesn't leave the Chelsea, Chelsea or Kensington for about six years, whether it be living. I think she, she had a flat the other side of Battersea Bridge once, but she's always in the poshest parts of town and has ridiculous connections that led to her being in the room. But the weird thing was she was considered a bit too common for the royals. Do you remember that bit? Steve Phillips: Yeah, really vaguely. I was quite young then, I guess, but, But yes, that's what

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   THE SMELL OF DEATH!   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we are casting an ear over the first new novel in eight years from the author of The Da Vinci Code   The Secret of Secrets Robert Langdon Book 6 A: Dan Brown N: Paul Michael L: 22 hrs and 50 mins R: 09-09-25 P: Penguin Audio   #Literature #Fiction Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   Clown Town Slough House, Book 9 A: Mick Herron N: Sean Barrett R: 11-09-25 L: 12 hrs and 6 mins P: Baskerville #Mystery #Thriller #Suspense  

'Good Pop, Bad Pop' - by Jarvis Cocker   On this episode of #AudioBookClub:   As the band Pulp release their first new music in 25 years, we join frontman Jarvis Cocker for a rummage around his attic   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's episode we heartily recommend Jarvis Cocker's new audiobook 'Good Pop, Bad Cop.   Good Pop, Bad Pop A: Jarvis Cocker N: Jarvis Cocker R: 26th May 2022 L: 6hrs and 39 mins P: Jonathan Cape   Join us as we explore the eclectic treasures from Jarvis's loft, reflecting on his life, music, and the cultural landscape of Britpop. From nostalgic anecdotes to insightful commentary, this episode is a celebration of creativity and the stories behind the objects that shape us.   Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   Entitled The Rise and Fall of the House of York A: Andrew Lownie N: Andrew Lownie R: 14-08-25 L: 11 hrs and 40 mins P: William Collins #Biographies & #Memoirs   TRANSCRIPT   Steve Phillips: On this episode of Audiobook Club. As the band Pulp released their first new music in 25 years, we join frontman Jarvis Cocker for a rummage around his attic.   Ben Folds: Good pop. Bad pop. An inventory by Jarvis Cocker, as read by me, Jarvis Cocker. Chapter one. There was a house I lived in for a while. I stored a lot of stuff in the loft of this house. When I say you stored a lot of stuff, that's really a polite way of saying used it as a skip.   Steve Phillips: Audiobook Club, with Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton. Hello, and welcome to Audiobook Club, the podcast about audiobooks that is most definitely sorted out for ease and with. Thank you very much. And of course, what other line could we have had in the script there? Matthew Layton, welcome to the podcast.   Matthew Layton: I did both things there, Steve. I did both copy and pace.   Steve Phillips: You did, you did, absolutely. By the way, can I put a screeching halt to the podcast in the early seconds and, quickly dragging Conclave from our last episode, I think we did a massive disservice.   Matthew Layton: Do you?   Steve Phillips: Yeah. Robert Prevost was glued to the Conclave, you know   So before we swing into Jarvis Cocker's, attic, let's, let's swing into the Pope's basilica.   Matthew Layton: Okay. I, I, I said at the time, didn't I, that I thought it was like the Da Vinci Code, but without the fun.   Steve Phillips: Yeah. But as I, as I, Because I hadn't finished the book, and as I finished the book and the denouement of who the, Pope was going to be from this Conclave. What a finish. What a finish. That's brilliant. I loved Conclave, and everyone should go and read it. There we go.   Matthew Layton: Okay. I have to confess that actually, appropriately having. Indeed.   Steve Phillips: When was your last one?   Matthew Layton: Thursday. I have to confess that, I, Yeah, I found myself wanting to get to the finish and find out what the finish was. I predicted who would win, as I think everybody did, but I didn't predict the twist.   Steve Phillips: I love you. This is the first time I've heard, actually. And, you know, I've been glued. I was glued to the Conclave, you know, as a lot of us were. no one ever talks about who won, who won the Conclave. It's the lottery or the footy.   Matthew Layton: Who was the runner up? That's the important one.   Steve Phillips: They should announce it, in a sense, like, get a bit, you know, get a bit Britain's Got Talent about it, you know, in ascending, ascending, descending, reverse order. And then the music. And let's face it, that place, the Vatican, is not Short of a dramatic tune or two, we could have had some light organ music going on the background, you know, and then a flourish at the end as we go. Robert Prevost, ladies and gentlemen.   Matthew Layton: Chicago's finest.   Steve Phillips: Indeed. There we go. So congratulations to, To Pope Leo.   Matthew Layton: Yeah.   Steve Phillips: From all or both of us here at Audiobook Club, for whatever that that's worth. And, And yes, definitely just as an addendum to our last episode where. Where we didn't give Conclave the most glowing of reviews. Go and read it. It's brilliant.   Matthew Layton: Yes.   Steve Phillips: Right.   Matthew Layton: Pope. Pope Leo, quickly. Mazel tov. Yes.   Steve Phillips: I've just got a rummage round in my.   Matthew Layton: Are you're having a rummage now?   Steve Phillips: Looking for the. I'm looking for the spanner to turn your. Your sensitivity. Decorum.   Matthew Layton: You're turning my nuts. It'll be a little tiny one.   Steve Phillips: Certainly, am. Right, okay, so we pivot now to this week's book. I love you putting the script here. You just put good cop, bad   Right, okay, so we pivot now to this week's book. We are casting an ear over. Good pop, bad pop. I love you putting the script here. You just put good cop, bad cop. Fair enough.   Matthew Layton: Oh, did I? Yeah, sorry.   Steve Phillips: But Good pop, bad pop. and I did love that introduction, by the way, where. Where Jarvis does say. By Jarvis. Yeah, Me.   Matthew Layton: Jarvis Love sums up the whole tone of the book and indeed his career. I think, you know, the way he refers to himself within the context of a formal structure with a little bit of a wink. I think he does, yeah.   Steve Phillips: Which I think is annoying. There's a knowing wink, isn't it? It's like we've all been here. We've all been here rummaging throughout, rummaging through our attic and the quiet moments. Steve: The 90s were my 60s, I guess   Matthew Layton: Now, now, I. You mentioned the script where I've done some. Some muzz. Prompting. I wanted to ask you, first of all, let's set this out properly. Who are, Pulp and what do you think of them, Steve?   Steve Phillips: So if you've, So Pulp growing up. Well, certainly the. The 90s were my 60s, I guess. and. And Pulp were really at the forefront of those. It was a. Oh, you know what? The 90s just seemed like a really nice time when we're living in now. And when I think about the younger generation growing up and what they're having to kind of live with and how it's affecting them, the 90s was. Was. You know, obviously, they were. It had. It had its bad points. Of course, looking back now, you wouldn't get away with a lot of the stuff that was going on there. And quite rightly, however, in terms of music off, Brit pop was just fantastic. Original guitar songs, you know, original bands, amazing lyrics. It really did speak to the generation and really Pulp, were at the forefront of that and very good of them. I thought about start back in 1978 to kind of, yeah. Reach that peak in the 90s. They were, they were, they were right there. Common People was absolutely seminal. The video to Common People. I'll never forget watching that on the ITV chart show. And suddenly Jarvis Copper pops up in this shopping trolley. I, was just brilliant. It was. Yeah. So Pulpa were there. Right. Throughout the year, the 90s and also beyond.   Matthew Layton: Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on. This is the second time Common People have featured on this podcast   You mentioned, you mentioned Common People. The song. This, of course is the second time that not only Jarvis, but the song Common People have featured on this podcast. Can you remember the first time, to coin a phrase?   Steve Phillips: Very nice.   Matthew Layton: That was an accident.   Steve Phillips: Different class back then. yay. Pulse Common People is about class divide amongst common people   Now do we talk about William Shatner?   Matthew Layton: Ah, we do, yes. Yeah, you called it. Exactly. It turns out, contrary to what I thought, you are actually listening while we're making this, this podcast too. So here's Ben Folds from, I think it was something like our fourth or fifth podcast. I met him in a lobby of a hotel in Adelaide and here he is bigging up Mr. M. Cocker.   Matthew Layton: The word that jumps out at me from that part of it is also a word that I've heard you use in what is undoubtedly my favourite cover version of all time ever. no, tourist.   Ben Folds: Tourist.   Steve Phillips: Right.   Matthew Layton: So, M. I only really understood Pulse Common People when I heard the Shatner version and heard the words independent of it.   Steve Phillips: Right.   Matthew Layton: Seems to me, am I putting too much meaning on a song that reflects your upbringing or is that just a happy coincidence?   Ben Folds: Oh, no, no, I, I, I, I think that song is just probably the most insane, decisive pop song about that particular class divide amongst common people. Absolutely. He, Jarvis absolutely nailed it. I think it's his best song. It's just a beautiful song because it's the tourism part is the wonderful part of it. I mean that's, and, and it's a good way. And you know, I, I took it.   Matthew Layton: So that's yeah, basically Ben Paul's saying, I grew up in a working class classroom, I hate class tourism too.   Steve Phillips: yeah, and it's true of the lyrics that they, that they sung about. It was really, it really did speak, really did speak to you. It was very much a reflection of real life and attitudes and you know, don't get too full of yourself, basically. And their new single that was out recently, Spike island, it was another. Was another. You know, it's really. Oh, man. Yeah. A real renaissance for them, I think, over the, Over the summer to come. And looking forward to their album.   Matthew Layton: Yeah, hold on.   Steve Phillips: Going back.   Matthew Layton: Going back to Common People for a second. And also. And it comes up about, you know, Jarvis's taste influences and aesthetics become a lot clearer. And they're laid out a lot clearer in this book than you would necessarily get from just listening to

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew fail to listen to each other's recommendations   t: Green Wing: Resuscitated - https://amzn.eu/d/f6eUNNU a: Victoria Pile, James Henry, Oriane Messina, Fay Rusling, Robert Harley, c: Oliver Chris, Olivia Colman, Pippa Haywood, Mark Heap, Michelle Gomez, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Karl Theobald p: Audible Originals l: 4h 17m   t: Mad Woman - https://amzn.eu/d/2UtJYiG  a: Bryony Gordon n: Bryony Gordon  p: Headline Publishing l: 6h 51m   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   Two recommendations for you this week:   Matthew has brought along Bryony Gordon's mental health memoir 'Mad Woman' while Steve serves up the audio revival of a cult comedy TV show show 'Green Wing:   Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom   AudioBookClub.net    #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram   Coming up on #AudioBookClub…   t: On His Majesty's Secret Service' - https://amzn.eu/d/09v7gI2s  a: Charlie Higson n: Charlie Higson   p: Ian Fleming Publications L: 4h 25 m  

Steve Phillips presents the first full-length episode of #AudioBookClub - the world's only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. In this episode Steve talks to regular contributors Cheryl Monkhouse and Matthew Layton about "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor." by former junior doctor/now comedian and writer Adam Kay. Get involved in the conversation on the #AudioBookClub forum or on facebook, instagram or twitter Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton introduce #AudioBookClub - the world's only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. They invite you to take part by listening to and expressing your views on the audiobook of Adam Kay's "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" Watch the video... ...or listen to the podcast on Google, Spotify or Apple Podcasts... ...then get involved in the conversation: In the #AudioBookClub forums -  On our facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/AnAudioBookClub Or use the hashtag #AudioBookClub  On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/audiobookshow/ Or on twitter - https://twitter.com/stevekphillips https://twitter.com/whingeingpom    -- "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" Written and narrated by Adam Kay   Available on Audible:   https://amzn.to/3BAn9zW   https://amzn.to/3kNCszE   https://amzn.to/3kJdaT7   https://amzn.to/3eJcPfi [The links above are Amazon affiliate links. If you happen to sign up for Audible or renew your subscription after clicking on one of them, #AudioBookClub may or may not be awarded a bounty of some sort. Thank you for your support!] -- If you want to take part in next month's show, we'll be listening to Hollywood heart-throb Rob Lowe's "Stories I Only Tell My Friends" which you can get hold of on Audible - https://amzn.to/2OwydpG   

BBC Sounds   On last week's episode of #AudioBookClub…   Our guest Tom Phillips, author of 'A Brief History of the End of the Fucking World' suggested an audiobook for us to review and recommend.   And he did so incredibly eloquently..   Piranesi A: Susanna Clarke N: Chiwetel Ejiofor R: 15-09-20 L: 6 hrs and 58 mins P: Bloomsbury   Unfortunately both Steve or Matthew failed to do their homework.   However, on this episode of #AudioBookClub…   In a week when the BBC are facing a bit of an online storm as listeners complain about the fact that ads have appearing on the BBC Sounds app.   Matthew and Steve, who met while they were both working for the BBC, discuss the unique nature of the UK's public broadcaster, their love for the BBC Sounds app and their feelings about the idea that their listener experience might be tainted by the appearance of vulgar commercial messages.   Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   The Accidental Soldier Dispatches from Quite Near the Front Line A: Owain Mulligan N: Owain Mulligan R: 10-04-25 L: 9 hrs and 29 mins P: Hodder & Stoughton

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:    "The end of the world is nigh!"   (And always has been).   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   On this week's pod, Steve and Matthew speak to Tom Phillips the author of 'A Brief of the End of the F*cking World'   This is a book about the end of the world - and our relationship with our impending doom A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World Brief Histories Series A: Tom Phillips N: Tom Phillips R: 27-02-25 L: 12 hrs and 39 mins P: Wildfire Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   Piranesi A: Susanna Clarke N: Chiwetel Ejiofor R: 15-09-20 L: 6 hrs and 58 mins P: Bloomsbury  

'Why We Sleep' - by Matthew Walker On this episode of #AudioBookClub:    Sleep   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams A: Matthew Walker N: John Sackville R: 07-12-17 L: 13 hrs and 31 mins P: Penguin Audio Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World Brief Histories Series A: Tom Phillips N: Tom Phillips R: 27-02-25 L: 12 hrs and 39 mins P: Wildfire  

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:  For one week, we're trying something new - Audiobook Clubber - where you come on and evangelise about an audiobook you love and recommend why we should all 'ear read' it. Our first Audiobook Clubber, Claire, joins Steve to discuss the brilliant 'James' by Percival Everett from the world of Mark Twain's  Huckleberry Finn.   'James' A: Percival Everett N: Dominic Hoffman Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins Publisher: Mantle Release date: 11-04-24 Read more of Claire's reviews at wordywitterings.com   Want to come on the pod and recommend an audiobook?  Get in touch below! @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X 

On this episode of #AudioBookClub:    The book of the moment!   Shocking revelations from the highest echelons of The Metaverse from Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams    Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   Careless People A story of where I used to work A: Sarah Wynn-Williams N: Sarah Wynn-Williams R: 13-03-25 L: 13 hrs and 16 mins P: Macmillan Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom #AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, instagram, Bluesky or X    On the next episode of #AudioBookClub:   Why We Sleep The New Science of Sleep and Dreams A: Matthew Walker N: John Sackville L: 13 hrs and 31 mins R: 07-12-17 L: English