Being David Archer: And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living

Timothy Bentinck, who has played David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982, has written a memoir. With wry, self-deprecating humor, he recounts his varied life, including acting, voice work, truck driving, tour guiding, computer programming, website design, invention, farm work, house renovation, and sitting as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 336 pages
\n Publication date: 11 October 2018
\n Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Stylish, incredibly funny memoir

Daily Mail

Timothy Bentinck has portrayed David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982. He is also the Earl of Portland and the voice of Mind The Gap on the Piccadilly Line. Primarily aimed at the five million regular Archers listeners, Timothy takes the reader behind the scenes of the longest-running drama series in the world, a British institution with a theme tune that Billy Connolly wants to be the National Anthem.

But that's not all. With wry, self-deprecating humor, Timothy recounts his enormously varied life - a successful actor in TV, film, and theatre, a voice specialist working in every vocal medium. He's also been an HGV truck driver, a US tour guide, a computer programmer and website designer, an inventor with UK and US patents, a farm worker, a house renovator, and he sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords for three years.

Unlike many acting memoirs, this isn't a succession of thespian tales of freezing digs, forgotten lines, and name-dropping. This is an articulate, funny, and thoughtful account of how to survive an insecure life.

\n Weight: 296g\n
Dimension: 192 x 129 x 22 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781472125132\n \n