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Sunburn
- The Unofficial History of the Sun Newspaper in 99 Headlines
- Narrated by: Alexei Sayle
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
You should buy this book if: a) you dislike the Sun, but have never actually read it to know why and/or b) you're still not sure how we got into this mess.
Using his famed on-the-nose commentary, Twitter legend James Felton has dissected 99 of the most outlandish stories the Sun (for a long time the biggest-selling British newspaper) has run since it became a tabloid in 1969, hoping to answer once and for all whether the press has reflected - or manipulated - the British people over the last 50 years.
Included: joke-riddled and illustrated analyses of the Sun's most infamous stories about celebrities, war, royals, crime, the LGBTQ+ community, migrants, the EU, politics, bacon sandwiches and page 3.
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"An astonishing piece of work." (James O'Brien)
"This book was a delight. Funny, scathing and witty." (Ian Dunt)
"James Felton makes me laugh like a bellend." (Robert Webb)
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- Banoffee_Pi
- 24-10-20
Another excellent book from James Felton
Hilarious book with great audio narration, shining a spotlight on the utterly awful S*n newspaper
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- Jo McCormack
- 26-04-21
F*n in the S*n
my dad ran a papershop during the 80s 90s and 00s and seeing your school teachers buying copies of the S*n was just embarrassing. reliving the experience now. thanks a fucking bunch James :) x
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- PM
- 01-06-21
Brilliant and horrible.
The UK has always been the home of both the best and the worst journalism in the world, and for a history of the dark side, it doesn’t get better than this. Also Alexei Sayle is just brilliant. Don’t hesitate.
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- Kindle Customer
- 22-10-20
Excellent reminder of how horrific the sun newspaper is
I knew that sun was an absolute rag, but this books was a nice reminder of how horrific they’ve been and the only surprising thing is that it’s still in circulation. Excellently narrated by Alexei Sayle
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- Ben Bennett
- 27-04-21
entertaining as always
Loved this listen from start to finish. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.
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- M. Taylor
- 12-06-21
superb combination
The book itself is informative and hilarious but pairing it with a reading by Alexei Sayle is genius. Sayle gets across the absurdity, outrage and exasperation of Felton's prose. I absolutely loved it.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-10-20
Most entertaining
I remember most of these headlines, they are cleverly put together with humour and context, I really really enjoyed this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-10-20
Absolutely fantastic
A brilliant trawl through the S*n’s most infamous headlines & stories from an inspired choice of narrator, the incredible Alexei Sayle.
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- Andy
- 25-06-21
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This is the most astounding book I have ever listened to. I’m not a Sun or tabloid reader, one rainy afternoon when I was 17 spent burning tabloid papers to keep warm and reading them as I went showed me just what they are like but listening to it like this made me feel sick. No wonder we have to have equality and diversity training and behavioural standards at work - presumably because you can’t ban people for reading tabloids. Everyone should read this book- in my opinion.
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- Jp
- 23-10-20
A journey of madness
Holy crap that was a disturbing account of a major "newspaper".
James mate, can I offer you a drink or some cake?
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