This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes
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This Much Is True
- By: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment & Celebrities
Publisher's Summary
From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had - this is (at last) her extraordinary life story, and it's well worth the wait.
Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure.
Now, at last, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story. And it's far richer and stranger than any part she's played.
Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John aged 17, being sent to Coventry by Monty Python and the Goodies and swearing on University Challenge (she was the first woman to say f--k on TV). This book is packed with unforgettable stories from why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had to being told off by the queen. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as she is.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2021 Miriam Margolyes (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Anonymous User
Wondeful, laugh-out-loud, and touching. And certainly honest.
I love Miriam. I saw her interview with Graham Norton, and listened to her appearance on Louis Theroux’s wonderful podcast. I worried that they might have shared all her best stories with Louis, but this was so enjoyable and so well written and there was *so* much more, and to hear her read by Miriam on Audible was an extra special treat. Yes, there are C-bombs and F-bombs so you won’t be disappointed on that front, but she also recounts very emotional moments with genuine and touching honesty. I see there’s 1 star review…I bet it’s from one of those Footlights guys (although she says Graham Garden apologised and I see there was an apology of sorts from Bill Oddie on Twitter). After listening to Miriam perform Bleak House I couldn’t shake that her prose was another Dickens. Until a C-bomb or a noshing off story shakes me out of my reverie. A great read/listen.
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Haute English
I tried and tried to listen to this, because I find Miriam quite funny on tv. But that overly correct English accent combined with stories that go on too long, with no real punchline. I just could not listen any longer and gave up on this book.
Sorry, not for me
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