
This Much Is True
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for £12.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Miriam Margolyes
-
By:
-
Miriam Margolyes
About this listen
From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had - this is (at last) her extraordinary life story, and it's well worth the wait.
Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure.
Now, at last, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story. And it's far richer and stranger than any part she's played.
Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John aged 17, being sent to Coventry by Monty Python and the Goodies and swearing on University Challenge (she was the first woman to say f--k on TV). This book is packed with unforgettable stories from why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had to being told off by the queen. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as she is.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2021 Miriam Margolyes (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedCritic reviews
"There is no one on Earth quite so wonderful." (Stephen Fry)
Wonderful. Surely the Audible book of the year
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Best thing I've heard in a long while, felt gutted when it was over 😢.
Just brilliant
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Truly Marvellous
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Review
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Best Biography ever written
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Simply wonderful- that much is true.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Miriam is a legend
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I found Miriams gentle tone a pleasure to listen to . A very interesting character and I love her honesty.
Great book
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I'D LOST TRACK OF MIRIAM FOR DECADES AFTER SEEING HER NARRATE ON JACKANORY WHEN I WAS 5 OR 6, UNTIL HER KICK UP THE EIGHTIES APPEARANCES IN THE 80'S, WITH HER FUTURE HARRY POTTER CO-STAR ROBBIE COLTRANE. A GREAT BOOK TO GET FOR YOUR FIRST AUDIO BOOK, HER VOICE NARRATING HER LIFE MAKES THE TEXT COME ALIVE WHEN TALKING ABOUT SMALL PERSONAL STORIES FROM HER LIFE, THAT ANYONE ELSE TELLING THE STORY WOULD FAIL TO CONVEY.
I CONSIDER MYSELF AS AN EXPERIENCED BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY READER AS I DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE, NOT FOR LAST FOUR DECADES,
MIRIAM ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE YOU'D LOVE TO MEET & JUST LISTEN TO TALKING, WITH THIS BOOK ON AUDIO YOU CAN!
50 + YEARS on my beautiful female list.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Don’t agree with all her beliefs but that is true of most of my friends
But what an extraordinary life
narrated in such a personal way I feel I have been listening to a friend
I was so sorry it finished when she reached 80 but she candidly discussed all the issues of being a fat Jewish lesbian reaching old age and
did not dodge the issue of facing
possible incontinence and her fear of dying
Highly recommend this book
Such an interesting life
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.