Andy and John are joined by Jonathan Coe, author of the internationally acclaimed novels The Rotter's Club and Oh! What A Carve Up! to discuss the life and work of his friend and mentor, David Nobbs, best known as the creator of Reginald Perrin.

Books Mentioned:

• Andrew Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

• James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

• Samuel Beckett - Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress

• Charles Dickens - The Holly Tree, Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings

• Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens: A Life

• Jonathan Coe - What A Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, House of Sleep, Like a Fiery Elephant, Number Eleven

• David Nobbs - I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today, It Had to Be You, Cupid’s Dart, Obstacles to Young Love, The Death of Reginald Perrin/ The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Better World of Reginald Perrin, Ostrich Country

Other Links:

• Joyce Reading Finnegans Wake

• Holly Tree Inn allegedly set up after hearing Dickens reading

• David Nobbs sketch for The Two Ronnies

• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

• British Humanist Association

• “I believe there are just as many Christian virtues to be found among the faithless as the faithful…I gained faith in people”