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A<\/span> memoir chronicling the comic and broadcaster John Robins\u2019s life in alcohol and his subsequent path to sobriety, Thirst is structured around the drinks that changed his life. There\u2019s the bottle of Jacob\u2019s Creek wine left out on a kitchen worktop which he helped himself to at the age of seven, secreting it into his orange juice, and the beer given to him at scout camp which he drank alone. There\u2019s also his stomach-churning recreation, while on a comedy tour of Australia, of the white russians drunk by the Dude in The Big Lebowski using a gallon of milk, a litre of vodka and a bottle of Kahlua.<\/p>\n As an adult, Robins, who is best known for his shows on Radio X and on BBC5 Live, romanticised pubs, which he saw as places of peacefulness and refuge. He even co-hosted the podcast The Moon Under Water where he invited guests to describe their ideal pub. Robins reveals that what kept him drinking for so long was the lie that he was in control. That he could, on occasion, get through a Dry January convinced him he couldn\u2019t be an addict, although he got a wakeup call when a GP told him to \u201csort your fucking life out\u201d.<\/p>\n Robins is our narrator and his reading, much like his prose, is heartfelt, darkly funny, sometimes self-lacerating and full of sage advice born from bruising experience. Currently sober, he must now grapple with the depression from which alcohol was shielding him. \u201cI can thank alcohol for trying to step in,\u201d he notes \u201cbut remind it that its services are no longer required, that I\u2019ll take it from here.\u201d<\/p>\n Thirst: Twelve Drinks That Changed My Life is available via Penguin Audio, 11hr 36min<\/p>\n The Land and Its People<\/strong> The Book of Records<\/strong> A memoir chronicling the comic and broadcaster John Robins\u2019s life in alcohol and his subsequent path to sobriety, Thirst is structured around the drinks that changed his life. There\u2019s the bottle of Jacob\u2019s Creek wine left out on a kitchen worktop which he helped himself to at the age of seven, secreting it into his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[16400,1001,25137,25136,2702,262,985,1085,25135,9894],"class_list":{"0":"post-51651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-audiobook","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-darkly","11":"tag-exdrinkers","12":"tag-funny","13":"tag-john","14":"tag-journey","15":"tag-review","16":"tag-robins","17":"tag-thirst"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Further listening<\/h2>\n
David Sedaris, Little, Brown, 7hr 26min<\/em>
The latest essay collection from the humorist was recorded live in front of an audience in Massachusetts and features reflections on his late mother, an anti-Trump protest in New Hampshire and the trials of looking after his partner, Hugh, after a hip operation.<\/p>\n
Madeleine Thien, Granta, 13hr 50min<\/em>
<\/em>Richard Lam, Athena Karkanis and Scott Turner Schofield are among the narrators of the fourth novel from the Dogs at the Perimeter author. It sees an ailing father and his daughter reflect on their past as they arrive at a remote migratory outpost called \u201cthe sea\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"