A Class Act by Rob Beckett
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A Class Act
- Life as a Working-Class Man in a Middle-Class World
- By: Rob Beckett
- Narrated by: Rob Beckett
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment & Celebrities
Publisher’s Summary
Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and comedy, he’s the laddie, cockney geezer, but to his mates down the pub in south-east London, he’s the theatrical one, a media luvvie. Even at home, his wife and kids are posher than him.
In this hilarious exploration of class, Rob compares his life growing up as a working-class kid to the life he lives now, trying to understand where he truly belongs.
Will he always be that fat kid who was told he’d never be a high-flyer? Why does he feel ashamed if he does anything vaguely middle class? Will he ever favour craft beer over lager? What happens if you eat 50 olives and drink two bottles of champagne? Why is boner such a funny word?
In search of answers, Rob relives the moments in his life when the class divide couldn’t be more obvious. Whether it’s the gig for rich bankers that was worse than Matt Hancock hosting the GQ Men of the Year Awards, turning up at a swanky celebrity house party with a blue bag of cans from the offy or identifying the root of his ambition as a childhood incident involving soiled pants and Jurassic Park, Rob digs deep.
A Class Act is his funny, candid and often moving account of what it feels like to be an outsider and the valuable (sometimes humiliating) life lessons he’s learned along the way.
©2021 Rob Becket (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Kindle Customer
thoroughly enjoyed it
really good down to earth insight to his life. he is very open and honest about everything.
Kindle Customer
couldn’t finish
I really like Rob Beckett……on tv. Narrating a book though is not his thing. I’d have thought because it was his own book that it would have worked but alas poor Rob it came across too labored, lacking in natural ease that his own biography should have engendered. I had to stop early on as I couldn’t tolerate it any longer.