PY Gerbeau interview audio
Here’s the audio of Calling Time On The Binge Drinkers, in which I appear near the beginning, and then later. Here’s the Radio Four page.
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Tania Glyde is a journalist, novelist, and broadcaster, and author of CLEANING UP, HOW I GAVE UP DRINKING AND LIVED.
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Recording of the Big Green Bookshop gig
April 5, 2009
Here’s me interviewed by Piers Gibbon at the Big Green Bookshop last week. (45 minutes long approx; NSFW.)
Quick phoner on the Vanessa Feltz show
March 20, 2009
Listen/download here: Talking live on the radio, on Vanessa Feltz (5.3 meg mp3) This was on the back of health secretary Alan Johnson’s remarks about teetotallers being pariahs.
In the Guardian comment pages, suggesting the UK gives up drinking
March 18, 2009
Here I am in the Guardian CiF today, suggesting people give up drinking. No, I won’t be reading the comments, although there are 58 of them already! Stop press – I got 121 comments in all. Not bad really.
Reviewed in the Morning Star, Irish Tribune & Scottish Daily Record
January 27, 2009
A slap in the face for the big booze barons. It’s a positive review, but also contains the words: ‘Anyone with a drink problem who wants to find out how to kick it will not find what they need in its pages.’ This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this. Note the title of the… [Read more…]
Interviewed by PY Gerbeau for Radio 4, in the Coach & Horses
January 20, 2009
A week ago I was struck by one of those cold/flu mutants that is neither, but still lays you out for a few days. Despite that, I managed to drag myself out to the Coach & Horses in Soho on Wednesday afternoon to be interviewed by PY Gerbeau about the Great British Drinking Problem. For… [Read more…]
Review in the Independent
January 4, 2009
As above, the Cleaning Up paperback’s been reviewed in the Independent. Not bad at all, although I’ve come to realise that I don’t write books for reviewers. I could go down the road of fane wrayting, I suppose, but there’s already a bit too much of that about, and I feel very sorry for the… [Read more…]
Quoted in the Guardian
December 2, 2008
A nice namecheck for Cleaning Up. Drastic Measures: Increasingly ashamed of her rare but mortifying drunken displays, Viv Groskop decided to seek help. She spoke to experts and reformed bingers in her bid to achieve the Holy Grail of drinking: moderation
Is being a drunken expat ever a good idea?
November 25, 2008
I’ve just heard that my fellow Rutlander, Michelle Palmer, is to be deported from Dubai instead of being imprisoned for her on-beach shenanigans with fellow Brit Vince Acors. She will no doubt be scapegoated for every drunken flashing of bits ever enacted by a western female for years to come. I’ve never been to Dubai,… [Read more…]
I wonder where she is…
June 4, 2008
In all the madness of the last four months, I’d forgotten a lady who turned up to my reading at the Pineapple in Kentish Town in late January. She arrived very early, came straight up to me, and said, intensely, ‘I read about you in Metro. I am also struggling with this terrible illness.’ I… [Read more…]
May 1, 2009
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