Announcing my new memoir BIG BEACON: a lighthouse rebuilt, a broadcaster reborn.
Where to buy? Well, far from being lumps that form in the bladder,
@Waterstones
is the name of my favourite retailer and they’ll have signed copies.
I was THRILLED to be asked by the Guardian 'news' paper to answer readers questions. Slightly misunderstanding the brief, I sat down and spent three weeks answering each of the 600+ questions in order, later to learn they only need around 12 answers. Here:
Ten minutes until showtime and I'm feeling both happy and relaxed! Stratagem starts tonight in - let's call it what it is - a Belfast ice rink. Come see me in a town near you:
Hate to be a drama king, but I’m sooooo excited to announce my new podcast series is available on
@audibleuk
. Visit and help yourselves NOW. You won’t even have to queue! (cc:
@schofe
) Here’s some marketing content I was made to do contractually.
Just arrived at Gav Williamson’s celebration brunch. The guy’s turned up a full suit of armour and it’s Sir Gavin this and my liege that. Absolutely classic Gav! Love him
A letter to my younger self. Sadly it's not possible to send a letter to yourself 50 years ago, though it is possible to send one to yourself 50 years from now. Just send it next day delivery with Evri! I’m joking. I know the commercial director. Good guy.
If my statue can in some way act as an Ambassador for Brass, and encourage just ten children to take up a brass instrument, it will be an upbeat ending to an otherwise dreadful year.
If the people of Norwich and surrounding areas want to memorialise me in sculpture, then as long as it is rendered in alpha brass with a low zinc content and not, say, a duplex brass, I grant my consent and will instruct my legal team to resheathe their daggers.
Hello and good morning. Having made a series of podcasts for
@audibleuk
I am obliged to issue 6 (six) promotional tweets. This is the first (1st) of those tweets.
To listen to an episode free NOW, simply shout ALEXA READ FROM THE OASTHOUSE ON AUDIBLE directly at her.
Thank you.
Shaking as I type this. For the last 12 months I have worked with Orion Publishing, a divorced graphic designer and a team of interns, who like all publishing interns are both Oxbridge and unpaid, to create a luxury version of my new memoir BIG BEACON.
Earlier this year, I trapped my hand in the top bit of an escalator and crumpled three fingers. Somehow I still signed a deal to make a 2nd series of my hit [CHECK] podcast. Today the fingers have plumped back up and the podcast is almost ready. Pre-order:
Elon is an anagram of Noel. Noel means Christmas. A shortening of Christmas is ‘X’mas. Jesus was born on Xmas day. So is Elon Jesus? Worth thinking about. Is Elon Santa? No but again, worth thinking about.
After Going for Gold and Brush Strokes, “Alan Partridge: From the Oasthouse (We’re Having A Barndance) (Mumford mix)” is one of Britain best loved theme songs. Here I am miming to it. PLEASE listen to my podcast. (Nearly wrote ‘podcats’ then!!)
@audibleuk
Today, the 81st birthday of the Citizens Advice Bureau, sees the launch of my podcast on
@audibleuk
. To play it from an Alexa device, just say “Alexa, play From the Oasthouse on Audible” four or five times and the content will play automatically. God bless and Rule Britannia.
big beacon will MAKE you smile, i’m SURE of it. did YOU know i deVOTEd 6 weeks to penning a sTORY that delights from one page to the NEXT. it has no WEEK bits. i GIVE my word, it has big THEMes, i counted FIVE. what's MORE, it’s a book to cherish for YEARS
Podcast fans! Do you like podcasts? If you like podcasts, try my podcast From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast, which is a podcast. And while some people, perhaps because they're sexually inadequate or thick, say it's an audiobook, it's a podcast.
Costume also includes a crown. Told him only kings wear crowns but he says 'a knight is a type of king, that's why they're anagrams.' I said ‘weren’t you the education secretary?’ He turned to an aide who nodded then Gavin said yes.
Here I am interviewing troubled funnyman Steve Coogan in today’s Guardian. Just one discrepancy. Fig 1 is the copy I submitted. Fig 2 is the copy
@Guardian
printed. I’d love to hear your views on why this might have happened. Me, I just find it curious.
Every day I receive umpteen questions (if not more) from fans wanting to know about the real me. And even though that’s true, I’m nonetheless soliciting additional questions from YOU. They will either be used in an exciting forthcoming project (if any) or more likely discarded.
Gotta say, Shappsy called this morning in bits, having one of his tizzes because we'd agreed defence was a bit too much responsibility for him. But after supportive chats with friends (me) and a quick zoom with mum Beryl, he’s decided to take the job and just try his best.
To celebrate the release of Big Beacon, we're giving away a three-night stay for two people in a luxury lighthouse in Alan Partridge's home county of Norfolk! Details here:
@ThisisPartridge
Alexander Pope, Andre Previn, Alex Polizzi, Andi Peters, a pig, Al Pacino, Augusto Pinochet, Allison Pearson. As a fellow AP, I’d happily work with them all (apart from last two). So imagine my joy that Amazon Prime are streaming my show Stratagem here:
ITV viewers! I’ll be on a show called Saturday Night Takeaway this weekend with my good friend Anton Dec. I’ll be offering him one free ticket to my live tour. Why don’t you come too?? (Not free)
To coincide with National Zoo Awareness Day, today sees the launch of series 3 of my podcast From the Oasthouse - a great listen whether you’re a human or a terrified animal with limited access to outdoor space. Get it here:
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It's based on a memoir by a man named Alan
And I have a job, but I want to be a paperback writer.
PAPERBACK WRITER
The paperback of Big Beacon is out on 6 Jun(e).
Good afternoon, each. Today sees the start of what the marketing team at
@audibleuk
calls pre-ordering, but I call ‘ordering’, of season three of From The Oasthouse, which I’m proud to say is one of the few UK podcasts you have to pay for. Pre-order now:
Chuckling to myself this morning. A pretty weak attempt to hurt me but that doesn't stop the list being utter utter utter bullshit, made up of largely terrible books.
Had my tour medical this morning. Strode into doc’s office, disrobed & said 'well?' The chap inspected every inch of me & said I looked superb and was in “terrific shape for a man of my age”. Would have been better if he was the doctor but still. Nice guy.
Without consulting the author, book and tote bag retailer Waterstones has been selling BIG BEACON at half price. I'm pleased to say that offer - which defiles both the book and English literature as a whole - ends at midnight tonight.
@RishiSunak
Stay strong Rish! If it helps, I was chatting to Gaz Barlow and he reckons it blows over after a year or so and you can go back to normal. Do you fancy coming to Stratagem? I did text and it said delivered but you've not replied.
#taxnous
The cover design for Big Beacon features my award-winning signature rendered in gold. But if you'd like your copy signed again slightly less well, in black, while you stand and watch, come to one of the following stores, buy the book (important) and get in the queue, thank you.
Put this in your pipe* and smoke it! For an indeterminate amount of time, my hardbacked book BIG BEACON (my caps) is available to buy for £9.50 here:
* In the photograph, I am holding a pipe.
On 27 January 2023,
@primevideouk
made my live show Stratagem available for streaming. At the time of writing, it remains available for streaming on the
@primevideouk
platform. Thank you.
I’ve subsequently learned that they don’t like to be called Amazon Prime, or Amazon at all, and I’m to refer to them only as
@primevideouk
but that doesn’t fit with the AP thing and I’d drafted the tweet by then. So 🤷🏻♂️
my three memoirs might STARt to MERge into one but this HAS never been A problem WEIRDLY. with a DRY wit to make your MOUTH smile, it comes in book and audiobook form BUT there’s NO ONE way to enjoy it, howEVER. just thought I should MENTIONS IT
SHIT: Boris Johnson and Richard Sunak will end the VAT discount on live tickets on 1st Oct.
I IMPLORE anyone who cares as deeply as I do about minimising their VAT liability to buy a ticket to my show NOW at
#Endtaxnow
#TaxPayersAlliance
#Clapforcarers
My publisher tells me that to “celebrate" the audiobook release of Big Beacon we’re running this exciting competition. It's open to people anywhere in the UK with the exception of people anywhere in N.I. Enjoy! (Enjoyment excludes N.I)
I'm tweeting this live from Saturday Night Takeaway on ITV. Or ITV1. Or ITV again. Or ITVBe or whatever it's called now. I don't know, no one here seems to either. It's absolute chaos. PLEASE don't let me have done this for nothing. Come and see my show.
That’s my friend The Right Honourable Grant Shapps, even though he’s rarely right and isn’t especially honourable. Not even sure he’s Grant Shapps - you forget which one’s the alias! Still, good guy and a steadily improving swimmer.
While Grant plans to drop actual bombshells (think we said Sweden then China), I am today dropping bombshell news. That series 3 of my podcast is out today. I’ve been asked by
@audibleuk
to tag them in this post which I have begrudgingly now done.
That being said: because the cost of living crisis is making people sad (although I’m doing great thanks to my shares in a company that sells E-cigs to teens), Audible is literally giving away this brand new episode: