He’s a radio icon. He’s the host of teatime TV talk show_This Time_. He’s got two best-selling autobiographies. He’s even been afilm star. And now Norfolk's finest, Alan Partridge, is heading into the world of podcasting._From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast_is coming soon to Audible – an 18-episode series that finds Alan delivering ‘revealing and intimate’ audio shows recorded from his very own Oasthouse (or, shed). The full series arrives in September, but here’s an exclusive extract to whet your appetite, in which Alan recalls recording a voice-over for a milk advert.
“Like most people, I assumed those who hosted podcasts were pale, tech obsessed social lepers who live with their mums and couldn’t get a platform on any meaningful broadcaster so started spouting their bloated opinions into their USB microphones to flatter their groaning sense of self-importance,” says Partridge. “But then I spoke to a man I’d never heard of before from Audible. HE called ME and made me an offer. I countered. He came back. I countered again. In short, we hammered out the details (to my satisfaction) and the result is a series of podcasts. They’ve been described as very good/sensational.”
The full series of From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast arrives on Audible from 3 September, and is available to pre-order now. Find more information here.