{"id":34624,"date":"2022-02-27T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/?p=34624"},"modified":"2022-02-26T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T15:11:10","slug":"bernard-who-the-curious-tale-of-bernard-cribbins-autobiography-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/02\/27\/bernard-who-the-curious-tale-of-bernard-cribbins-autobiography-audiobook\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Who?: The Curious Tale of Bernard Cribbins’ Autobiography Audiobook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s a lovely curio: the power of social media has resulted in Bernard Cribbins getting to record his autobiography <\/em>as an audiobook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernard Who?: 75 Years of Doing Just About Everything<\/em> was released in hardback in 2018 then paperback in 2020. But his publisher apparently didn’t take up the rights to make an audiobook version — which Cribbins really wanted to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-writer, James Hogg, shared Cribbin’s frustrations on Twitter<\/a> on 17th February in an attempt to generate support for the idea. A successful<\/em> attempt, no less, because by the following way, Hogg returned to the social media platform to confirm that the rights have now been cleared, meaning Bernard will<\/em> record an audio of Bernard Who?<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hogg tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believe it or not this has now been sorted out and Mr Cribbins WILL be recording the audiobook version of his autobiography, Bernard Who?<\/em>, in the very near future. This is all because of the response to my original tweet and I’m incredibly grateful, as is the man himself x <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s wonderful news for generations of fans, including us Doctor Who<\/em> viewers who loved Cribbins as Wilfred Mott, Donna Noble’s grandfather and arguably a companion to David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the blurb for Bernard Who?<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernard Cribbins’s life has been an eventful one. In 1943, he left school aged fourteen and joined Oldham Repertory Company where he earned fifteen bob for a seventy-hour week. After being called up for National Service in 1946 he became a paratrooper and spent several months in Palestine being shot at. On returning home, and to the theatre, Bernard was eventually approached by George Martin, then an A&R man for Parlophone Records, who suggested he made a record. Just months away from producing The Beatles, Martin asked Bernard to come to Abbey Road Studios in north London and, after teaching him how to sing into a microphone, they eventually recorded two hit singles – ‘The Hole in the Ground’ and ‘Right Said Fred’. These, together with appearances in now classic films such as\u00a0Two Way Stretch<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Wrong Arm of the Law\u00a0<\/em>(not to mention a certain television programme called\u00a0Jackanory<\/em>), catapulted Bernard to stardom and, by the time he started filming\u00a0The Railway Children\u00a0<\/em>in 1970, he was already a national treasure.<\/p>

Since then, Bernard’s CV has been an A-Z of the best entertainment that Britain has to offer, and, thanks to programmes such as the aforementioned\u00a0Jackanory,<\/em>\u00a0The Wombles<\/em>, and, more recently,\u00a0Old Jack’s Boat,<\/em>\u00a0he has become the voice of many millions of childhoods.<\/p>

Seventy-five years in the making and packed with entertaining anecdotes,\u00a0Bernard Who?<\/em>\u00a0tells the wonderful story of one of the longest and most celebrated careers in show business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We look forward to hearing more about the audiobook; until then, you can buy Bernard Who?<\/em> in paperback<\/a> right now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n