General Information
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 Title:                  Fall + Riseof Reginald Perrin
 Author:                 David Nobbs
 Read By:                Christopher Scott
 Copyright:              1975
 Audiobook Copyright:    1997
 Genre:                  Humour
 Publisher:              ISIS Audiobooks
 Series Name:            Reginald Perrin
 Position in Series:     1
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Media:                  Tape
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Good

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 Total Duration:         9h:06m
 Total MP3 Size:         250.49 MB
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David Nobbs - Reginald Perrin series

1-The Fall & Rise Of Reginald Perrin. (Victor Gollancz, 1975) 250.49 MB
2-The Return Of Reginald Perrin. (Victor Gollancz, 1977) 
3-The Better World Of Reginald Perrin. (Victor Gollancz, 1978)  240.26 MB
4-The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin. (Methuen, 1995) 242.10 MB
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Book Description
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The Death Of Reginald Perrin, 1975 
reprinted as The Fall & Rise Of Reginald Perrin. (Victor Gollancz, 1975) 
Reggie Perrin is tired of the rat race, and decides to fake his own suicide and 
live a new life.

 Adapted from a rejected BBC play submission to Pebble Mill, Birmingham in which 
the hero commits suicide. In the novel, 
Perrin's frustrations build until he can take no more, sabotages his boss's 
sycophantic fishing contest, where employees are literally 
'angling for promotion', and leaves his clothes on a Dorset beach, to simulate 
a drowing. He then roams the English countryside in various guises, before 
realising he misses his wife and family too much, and returns to them.
 
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Read By  Christopher Scott 

Christopher Scott was born in Manchester but has been resident in London for a
number of years. Since leaving Drama School he has worked in theatre throughout
the British Isles including seasons in Pitlochry, Oldham, Leicester, Salisbury,
Canterbury, Leatherhead, Richmond and tours with Prospect Theatre Company
and Triumph Theatre Productions.
It is perhaps for his radio work that he is best known, having been a member
of the BBC Radio Drama Company on four separate occasions. He was
Involved in such classics as The Lord of the Rings, The Hunchback of Notre    
Dame and The Forsyte Chronicles, as well as numerous Afternoon and
Saturday Night Theatre plays.
He was also heavily involved with the recording of the complete
authorised King James version of the Bible.


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David Nobbs
Biography: 

    David Gordon Nobbs was born in Orpington, Kent on March 13th 1935, the only 
child of a schoolmaster and a schoolmistress. At the outbreak of war in 1939, 
David was evacuated to Marlborough, Wiltshire, where he started his education. 
Back in Orpington after the war, he attended Bickley Hall preparatory school. 
Then, aged 13, it was back to Marlborough to attend college there. It was here 
that he first put pen to paper, writing articles for the college magazine.This 
was followed, at the age of 18, by the then customary two years national 
service, which he served in the Royal Corps of Signals. During this time he 
undertook a correspondence course in journalism. After leaving the Signals in 
1955, he went to St. John’s College, Cambridge University where he read 
Classics in Part 1, and English in Part 2, although he spent much of his time 
writing for the university newspaper and sketches for the Footlights 
performance company. He graduated with a second. 
    His education over, David landed a job in 1958 with the Sheffield Star 
newspaper, which lasted two years. He then relocated to a bedsit in Narcissus 
Rd., West Hampstead, London in 1960 where he wrote ten stage plays (none of 
which were ever performed) and started writing his first novel, but soon lost 
his motivation. Penniless (he earned £4 in eighteen months), he got a job at an 
advertising agency as a voucher clerk. He found the repetitive routine of his 
work tedious – perhaps subconsciously preparing him for what would become his 
most famous creation, Reginald Perrin (although he always denies this). 
    Eventually he returned to the ‘press gang’, working for the North London weekly 
newspaper, the St. Pancras Chronicle. At this time, a new series had started on 
television called ‘That Was The Week That Was’, hosted by David Frost. It was a 
satirical and topical look at the news of the time through sketches and skits. 
David had a few of his own sketches accepted and his motivation was restored. 
He gave up the day job and soon had two novels under his belt: 
'The Itinerant Lodger' was published by Methuen in 1965 and concerned a man who 
kept on moving home, and changed his job and even his name each time he did so. 
‘Ostrich
Country’ was published in 1968, again by Methuen, and featured nutritional 
scientist Pegasus Baines who give up his job and becomes a vegetable chef at an 
East Anglian hotel.At the same time he started to write material for some of 
Britain’s best-known comedians, including Les Dawson, Frankie Howerd, Jimmy 
Tarbuck, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper and Dick Emery. 1969 saw the publication of 
'A Piece Of The Sky Is Missing', 
David's most successful novel up to that time. It follows the exploits of Robert Bellamy, an employee of Cadman & Bentwhistle Manufacturing Co., who is sacked for doodling rude pictures of his boss on the toilet wall, and his subsequent search for employment. The early 1970s saw David continuing to write comedy sketches for Britain's 
top comics and their shows, now including Messrs. Barker and Corbett - The Two 
Ronnies (Ronnie 
Barker's famous appearance as the minister from The Society for Pispromunciation was written by David). 
    In 1975, another novel appeared, ‘The Death Of Reginald Perrin’, and David Nobbs was established as one of the country’s top comedy writers. The BBC commissioned the book as a series, starting with the pilot, first shown on September 8th 1976, and the series quickly became one of the classics of British television, with David writing the scripts. Re-released after the success of the series as ‘The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin’, the novel became the first in a trilogy. Both ‘The Return Of Reginald Perrin’ and ‘The Better World of Reginald Perrin’ were written in tandem with the TV series, although all three television series were known as ‘The Fall And Rise…’ on TV. The great success of the first series resulted in the unusual action of the second novel being published in both hardback (by Gollancz) and paperback (by Penguin) at the same time. Since then, David has juggled TV series with his novels, 
including ‘Fairly Secret Army’ for Channel 4, based loosely on a character in the “…Perrin” novels; ‘Second From Last In The Sack Race’, the first of the Henry Pratt trilogy (and televised as ‘The Life And Times Of Henry Pratt’); 'A 
Bit Of A 
Do' (again novels, then TV series - this series won David five awards); 'Rich 
Tea And 
Sympathy'; and the wartime comedy drama ‘Stalag Luft’ starring Stephen Fry and Nicholas Lyndhurst. In 1990 David won The Writers' 
Guild Special Award for 'services to television comedy'. In 1996, Reginald 
Perrin was resurrected - sort of. Reggie had been killed and had left a huge 
sum of money to family and friends – on one condition, namely that they do 
something totally and utterly absurd. The 1995 novel ‘The Legacy Of Reginald 
Perrin’ was once again televised by the BBC, in 1996. 
    Now living in North Yorkshire with his second wife Susan, David Nobbs lists his 
interests as including eating, drinking, travelling, playing bridge, dominoes 
and mah jongg, watching cricket and football (he still supports Hereford 
United: "Well, not many other people do!", he says), ornithology, cruising and 
weeding. He has innumerable credits to his name, including radio serials. He 
also hosts regular creative writing workshops for budding novelists. He has 13 
novels to his name. His latest, called 'Going Gently', was published on July 
6th 2000, and is now available in paperback. His autobiography, entitled 
'I Didn't Get Where I Am Today...' is published on 6th March 2003.

