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No One Listens to Your Dad's Show Christian O'Connell

No One Listens to Your Dad's Show By Christian O'Connell

No One Listens to Your Dad's Show by Christian O'Connell


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Summary

The hilarious, revealing and surprisingly moving story of what happened when famous UK radio DJ, Christian O'Connell, risked everything by moving to Australia in midlife - to find himself a complete unknown in a country where, he soon discovered, no one wanted to hear him on the radio.

No One Listens to Your Dad's Show Summary

No One Listens to Your Dad's Show by Christian O'Connell

'Christian has achieved something very beautiful and funny with this book, weaving ordinary life and every day sadness into something hopeful and profound. I loved it.' Russell Brand

As a radio DJ in London, Christian O'Connell appeared to have it all. He held the number one spot nationally, with a faithful audience of millions who'd listened to him for years. Celebrities flocked to come on his show and no other radio DJ had won more awards.

But not everything was as it seemed. Minutes before going live one morning, something happened that changed everything and led to a decision of seismic proportions. He quit his job, moved to the other side of the world, where no one knew him, and took on the toughest radio market in the world - Australia.

Why? is the question he's been asked every day since landing Down Under. Until now he's never shared the real reason.

No One Listens to Your Dad's Show is the story of Christian risking everything, uprooting his wife, two daughters and his dog to move to Australia. A move that lands him as a complete unknown in a country where, he soon finds out, no one wants to hear him on the radio.

He was failing, fortysomething and falling apart.

Until he wasn't.

No One Listens to Your Dad's Show Reviews

Christian has achieved something very beautiful and funny with this book, weaving ordinary life and every day sadness into something hopeful and profound. I loved it. -- Russell Brand
Smart and funny -- Ricky Gervais

Reading this book is like spending time with Christian. Funny and inspiring.

-- Adam Hills

About Christian O'Connell

In 2018 Christian O'Connell was one of the UK's biggest radio stars, the youngest DJ ever to be inducted into the UK Radio Hall of Fame and the winner of an unprecedented 25 radio awards. As a stand-up comedian he sold out national tours.


Then he decided to move to Australia. Struggling at first and written off by industry experts, against great odds on air and off air his breakfast show on GOLD FM in Melbourne went to the highly coveted Number 1 spot within eighteen months, giving the station its highest ratings in over twenty years, making Christian the first DJ to have Number 1 breakfast shows both sides of the world.

Table of Contents

i: Prologue: My last show on air, London, May 2018 ii: Introduction: The story I don't want to tell you iii: PART ONE 1: The man in the shed 2: Son of Fonzie 3: Mind your language, Prime Minister 4: Halfway dead 5: Leslie and me 6: 'Every time you open your mouth, people will hate you.' iv: PART TWO 7: Come fail with me 8: Pets before dads 9: 520 hours to make it work 10: Nineteen-minute honeymoon 11: Clowns with feelings 12: Notes from Down Under 13: Neighbours 14: Embrace the suck 15: 'Try giving birth.' 16: The biggest decision I had to make 17: Meet my new nemesis 18: Notes from my wife 19: Home alone v: PART THREE 20: Life lessons in a boxing ring 21: Fudge Man save me 22: A disgusting man 23: New besties 24: I bought a house drunk 25: Replaced 26: Building the treehouse 27: The Peter Logan effect 28: Drives with my daughters 29: 'Man Walks into a Radio Station with Ten Thousand Dollars' 30: 'Who's Calling Christian?' vi: Epilogue What happened to me? vii: Some words from the girls viii: Thank-you note

Additional information

GOR011569516
9781838952884
1838952888
No One Listens to Your Dad's Show by Christian O'Connell
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Atlantic Books
20210603
336
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