Easily Distracted Audiobook (Free)

Steve Coogan was created and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the 4th of six children. From an early on age he interested his family with impressions and was frequently told he should ‘become for the telly’. Failing to get into any of the London-based dilemma schools, he approved a place at Manchester Polytechnic School of Theater and before graduating had received his 1st break like a tone of voice artist in the satirical puppet present Spitting Image.

The late eighties and early nineties saw Coogan developing about Easily Distracted characters he could perform on the comedy circuit, from Ernest Moss to Paul Calf, and in 1992 he won a Perrier award with John Thomson. It was around the same time, while working with Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber on AROUND THE Hour and YOUR DAY Today, that Alan Partridge emerged, almost fully produced.

Coogan, once a tabloid fixture, is currently a respected film actor, writer and maker. He operates his own creation business, Baby Cow, has a raft of films to his name (from 24 Hour Party Visitors to Alpha Papa, the critically-acclaimed Partridge film), six Baftas and seven Comedy Awards. He has found huge success lately with both Trip and Philomena, the second option getting him two Oscar nominations, for producing and co-writing.

In Easily Distracted he lifts the lid on the true Steve Coogan, writing with distinct humour and an unexpected candour in regards to a noisy childhood surrounded by foster kids, his attention-seeking adolescent years and his emergence as children name using the birth of Alan Partridge.

Narrated by Steve Coogan himself.