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Chris Neill (born 1968) is a British comedian, producer, and writer who features regularly on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland. Performing also as a stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, he has presented five solo shows on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2002. Early career Chris Neill began his career producing comedy and entertainment shows for BBC Radio between 1993 and 2000. Since then, he has continued to make shows for BBC radio networks as a freelancer. His productions include The Hudson and Pepperdine Show, Just A Minute, The News Huddlines, Week Ending, Lee and Herring, Rainer Hersch's 20th Century Retrospective, Kit and the Widow - Sanitised for the Wireless, It's That Jo Caulfield Again, Quote... Unquote, Miranda Hart's House Party, Cambridge Footlights: A Retrospective, ... by Woody Allen, Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Why the Big Pause? Talk of New York, and Sean Lock's 15 Storeys High. Comedy roles and performances In 2000, Neill became a panelist on shows such as Just a Minute, The Motion Show, and Quote... Unquote. In Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting, written by and featuring the comedian, he had a regular role as Chris, the live-in builder with a fear of completing any job. He also had cameo roles in Sean Lock's 15 Storeys High and The Hudson and Pepperdine Show, as well as writing and presenting a Radio 4 documentary about the legendary Round the Horne star, Betty Marsden. He has regularly contributed to the Sunday-morning news magazine programme, Broadcasting House, as well as presenting a weekly feature on MacAulay & Co on BBC Radio Scotland. In 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009, he co-hosted elements of MacAulay & Co along with Fred MacAulay and Sue Perkins as it was broadcast from the Spiegel Tent every morning during two weeks of the Edinburgh Festival. Radio 4 and 4 extra "Woof" excellent autobiographical comedy Also features Martin Hyder, Alison Steadman and Isy Suttie. Neill made his début as a stand-up comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2002 with his show Does it With Strangers at the Pleasance, and he returned to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004 with The BBC, Andrew Gilligan, and Me and in 2005 with Middle Class Misery — the Board Game, both also at the Pleasance, in 2006 with his show Everybody Hates Chris (Neill) at the Underbelly and in 2008 with Chris Neill's Got a Bun in the Oven at the Assembly Rooms. He was a core performer in Robin Ince's Book Club, both in London and on national tour, and has also worked as a television warm-up artist. Other roles Neill also performs as a radio actor and as a voice-over artist. In 2006, he played Sir James Tyrrell in the Doctor Who audio drama The Kingmaker. He has recorded the voice of Lord Cutler Beckett for the Disney video game, Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned and voiced the part of Owl in all 52 episodes of the animation Poppy Cat for Nick Jr. He has also lent his voice to the English dub of a French animated series called Lilybuds made for Zodiak Kids voicing Zinnia's jerboa Spearmint. References External links Chris Neill's Dirty Kitchen (A food blog) Chris Neill Official Website. Discover the Chris Neill popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Chris Neill books.
Best Seller Chris Neill Books of 2024
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The Double Tenth
George BrownMalaya, 1952 The War of the Running Dogs.They shot the Chinese courier and took the documents he was carrying. Then they cut off his hands and rolled him into a shallow grave.Anot...
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Malarkey
Keith GrayBrook High is a great grey concrete ants' nest of a school. John Malarkey is the new kid, thrown in at the deep end of Year 11. He's the wrong person in the wrong place at the wron...
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The Descent of Man
Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin & James MooreApplying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classic...
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The Memory Thief
Leonie AgnewA lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girl form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew's extraordinary novel for children aged 9 years and up. For as long as Seth can remember he’s bee...
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Columbus in Space
The European Space AgencyIn 2008, Europe’s first space laboratory was launched to the International Space Station. Ten years later, the Columbus laboratory is still circling 400 km above our heads at 28,80...
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Into the Black
Rowland WhiteA book “no aviation buff will want to miss” (The Wall Street Journal) and “the perfect tale that educates as it entertains” (Clive Cussler, #1 bestselling author), Into the Black r...
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Cry Father
Benjamin WhitmerThe second novel from the critically acclaimed writer of Pike, which was nominated for France’s prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière crime fiction award and “easily riva...
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The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales
Gerald Of Wales, Betty Radice & Lewis ThorpeScholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of...
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The Imposter
Leona DeakinHe doesn't just want your identity. He wants your life...No one sees him coming.A stockmarket trader is pushed from a highrise balcony and falls to his death on the street below. T...
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Pet Shop Boys, literalmente
Chris Heath1989. Los Pet Shop Boys el elegante y carismático Neil Tennant (voz) y el esquivo Chris Lowe (teclados), quizás el dúo más brillante del pop británico de los ochenta, que hasta la ...
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Graphic Content
Brian Singer63 top creatives speak out on art, inspiration, life, and random things that happened."We watched as 60 yards away this man fought for his life. And I felt like a coward.""The pole...
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Possible Minds
John BrockmanScience world luminary John Brockman assembles twentyfive of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of ...
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Mid-Life Cyclists
Chris McHutchison & Neil BlundellThis is the account of Chris, an Australian, who took up cycling in order to win over his Belgian girlfriend and her cycling obsessed father, and Neil, a Briton, who took up cyclin...
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The Astronaut Selection Test Book
Tim Peake & The European Space AgencyThe puzzle book of 2018, as featured in the Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Breakfast, and a Guardian Book of the Year pick.Have YOU got what it takes to be an astron...
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Having it So Good
Peter HennessyWinner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow o...
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Hayley Westenra
Darren Henley & Hayley WestenraHayley's first performance as 'Little Star' in a Christmas play was perfectly pitched, beautifully sung and enthusiastically received. She was six years old. Now, at the tender age...
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Questions for a Dead Man
Alex GrayYour favourite Scottish detective returns in 2023 in an enthralling new mystery'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH 'Move over Rebus' Daily Mail 'Exciting, p...
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Badfellas
Paul H. WilliamsBadfellas is the definitive account by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams, of how organized crime evolved in Ireland over the past four decades.Dra...
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Christopher
Ron PeggChris Neilor Christopher, as his mother, Bonnie, called himgrew up with the ambition and desire to be an NHL hockey player. Through grit and determination, he achieved his goal and...
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Fighting Fate
Justin YerburyJustin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease (MND) that he would do everything he could to find a cure. MND had already taken several me...
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Joe Dolan
Ronan CaseyGrowing up in poor circumstances in the midlands town of Mullingar might seem an unlikely start for a musical superstar, but that's exactly the journey Joe Dolan travelled in his a...
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Defying Limits
Dave WilliamsAn inspirational, uplifting, and lifeaffirming memoir about passion, resilience and living life to the fullest, from Dr. Dave Williams, one of Canada’s most accomplished astronauts...
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Stop Bloody Bossing Me About
Quentin Letts'The inimitable Quentin Letts dares to say in a new book what we've all been secretly thinking' Mail on Sunday'Fuming and chuckling by turns' Daily Telegraph'Underneath the jocula...
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Too Close to Home
Chris NeillA short science fiction / conspiracy story set in the Highlands of Scotland.
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Open Look
Jay TrianoA thoughtful, entertaining memoir about one of Canada’s most decorated basketball stars, his love of the sport, and the rise of basketball in Canada.As a child growing up in Niagar...
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The Silver River
Jim MoginieA moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil.For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim ...
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The Runner
Keith GrayJason has had enough of his parents' arguments. He's running away to stay with his brother in Liverpool. On the train journey he meets a 'runner' called Jam, who li...
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Lethal Force
Tony LongTony Long was the best ‘shot’ the Met ever had. Under the codename ‘Echo 7’, he was ‘licenced to kill’ bringing down scores of targets, sometimes with deadly force. In 1985 he open...
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Echo of the Dead
Alex GrayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray. Book 20 in the Lorimer series, QUESTIONS FOR A DEAD MAN, is out now and Book 21, OUT OF DARKNESS, is avai...
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The Testament of Loki
Joanne M HarrisIn the sequel to The Gospel of Loki, Loki’s adventures continue when he finds a way out of the end of the world and plans to restart the power of the Norse gods.The end of the worl...
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The Prosecutor
Nazir AfzalThe outsider who transformed our justice systemNazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure the most complex, violent and harr...