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  • Chart Throb

  • By: Ben Elton
  • Narrated by: Adam Godley
  • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Chart Throb

By: Ben Elton
Narrated by: Adam Godley
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Summary

Chart Throb: the ultimate pop quest, with 95,000 hopefuls, three judges, and just one winner. And that's Colin Simms, the genius behind the show. Colin always wins, because Colin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers, and blingers he has pre-selected in his carefully scripted "search" for a star, he has no idea that the rules are changing. The "real" is about to be put back into "reality" television, and Colin and his fellow judges (the nation's favourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factors themselves.

Ben Elton, author of Popcorn and Dead Famous, returns to blistering comic satire with a savagely hilarious deconstruction of the world of modern television talent shows. Chart Throb: one winner and a whole bunch of losers.

©2006 Ben Elton
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the narrator brought the characters to life and accentuated Ben Elton's fantastic comedic ability throughout

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