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Sunburn

The Unofficial History of the Sun Newspaper in 99 Headlines

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Sunburn

By: James Felton
Narrated by: Alexei Sayle
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About this listen

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.

©2020 James Felton (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK 20th Century Elections & Political Process Europe Great Britain Modern Politics & Government Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing Comedy Funny Thought-Provoking Witty

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Critic reviews

"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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Hilarious book with great audio narration, shining a spotlight on the utterly awful S*n newspaper

Another excellent book from James Felton

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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

F*n in the S*n

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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.

Brilliant and horrible.

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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

Excellent reminder of how horrific the sun newspaper is

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Loved this listen from start to finish. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

entertaining as always

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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.

superb combination

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I remember most of these headlines, they are cleverly put together with humour and context, I really really enjoyed this book.

Most entertaining

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A brilliant trawl through the S*n’s most infamous headlines & stories from an inspired choice of narrator, the incredible Alexei Sayle.

Absolutely fantastic

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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.

BloodyHell

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Holy crap that was a disturbing account of a major "newspaper".

James mate, can I offer you a drink or some cake?

A journey of madness

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