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Malcolm Hardee: Without a Paddle / book

Started by banana, June 11, 2015, 08:23:49 AM

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banana

Hello.

Apologies if this is somewhere on the forum. I tried to search and it said I wasn't allowed.

I am after a copy of this documentary from 2005.
There is a link to it on here which is long dead here:
http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=8491.10;wap2

There's some information on the BBC website here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/withoutapaddle.shtml

If anyone hasn't read the excellent book about him (which is now out of print and costs about £50) "I STOLE FREDDIE MERCURY'S BIRTHDAY CAKE" there is a pdf here, enjoy:
http://thejohnfleming.com/Documents/ISFMBC.pdf


Oops! Wrong Planet


Bingo Fury

Fuck's sake, I used to have that book, but ditched it when moving flats about ten years ago. £50, you say?

Would have been worth keeping just for the anecdote about Jenny Agutter's dad's balls.

Serge

£50! Back in the days when I worked in remainder bookshops, we used to sell it for £2.99. It sticks in my mind because there used to be a guy who would come in regularly to buy a copy merely so he could tell us that he knew Hardee. Like a twat, I never did buy one for myself.

Ignatius_S

I would take that price with a pinch of salt – there's so much dodgy pricing due to algorithms that don't realistically take into account supply and demand. I doubt many people are falling over themselves to buy at that price.

A while ago (maybe two years ago), I bought a copy of Max Wall's autobiography in absolutely smashing condition for not much (£7 tops) in a second-hand bookshop – when I looked online to research more Wall-related material, I saw the same book (regardless of the condition) was well over fifty quid; going from memory, but £70+ was standard and intrigued, I searched more but couldn't find anything under £50. Just looked and although there are a lot of sellers charging those old price, it's now fairly easy buying it for less than a tenner and lot of dealers are charging around £20.

*edit* Just checked and the £50 price is for new copies - used ones are a much more reasonable, nay bargain, £35 but did see one copy for £8.

banana

Thank you Oops! Wrong Planet, you've made my day.

I'm looking forward to giving it a listen.


checkoutgirl

Very interested in this guy. He had an extraordinary life from the few bits I've heard. I'm only posting this so I can remember to come back to it in My Posts.

One thing I was thinking is this, is Hardee a reliable narrator? I wouldn't be surprised if half the stories about him were made up by people and the other half were made up by him. Then again he did drown with a bottle of Budweiser clasped in his hand at the bottom of a river so I suppose anything's possible.

banana

If anyone wants a download rather than a stream here is a link:
http://we.tl/mTufdr7rot

easytarget

Christ, I picked up a signed copy in a charity shop years ago for, I dunno three quid (probably after he died too). No idea where it is, I must find it so I can sell it and retire. 

Pinball

I've got decades of radio comedy, of pretty much everything, in case anyone wants anything. Main BBC stations are covered, anyway. If the BBC was any good, their entire archive would be online with no DRM to the public by now, but I digress. I have these for MH:

Without a Paddle - Malcolm Hardee Story BBCR4 050705.mp3 (25.73MB)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/withoutapaddle.shtml
https://www.sendspace.com/file/97f7r1

Aaargh! A Tribute To Malcolm Hardee - 05.08.21 - Gilded Ballon Teviot, Fringe.mp3 (47.56MB)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/q2y44c
Uploaded to CaB (to a now deleted thread) on 17th Sept 2006. Arthur Smith does a tribute at the Fringe. 'Oi Oi!'.

I assume the latter is what is on the Arthur Smith site. Edit: no it's not.

Enjoy.