I’ve sent the extra copy to the lovely friend who introduced me to the podcast in the first place to say thank you for the hours of free entertainment I’ve benefitted from. The book was super disappointing though - written through the eyes of 90s TV shoes, which whilst was a good trip down memory lane, loses its appeal after the first few pages if you’re really not that fussed about TV.

It will discuss everything from the BBC convincing him that Michael Parkinson had been possessed by a ghost, to Josh’s belief that Mr Blobby is one of the great comic characters, to what it’s like being the only vegetarian child west of Bristol. This comes from someone who is not necessarily a super mega fan of Josh Widdicombe, just someone with a normal level of fandom. Josh can at least justify his childhood TV addiction on the grounds that he grew up in a remote sparsely populated area of Devon. Obviously Josh couldn't include everything, but one glaring omission for me was the Doctor Who TV movie on '96.This is a book about growing up in the '90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I also found the book to have been quite thrown together; lots of juggled writing (lots of mentions of things before their chapter - e.

An Almost Zero Waste Life is an aspirational book to teach you that being zero waste isn't necessarily about zero, but more about changing the way we see the world around us, how we consume, and how we think about waste. It was also a real nostalgia trip and heartwarming to read the similarities in mine and Josh’s childhood from the growing up in the middle of nowhere (in my case, Norfolk), the small class sizes and the very minor cases of rule breaking (one whole class detention).The book is full of great stories and memories, supported by the vast number of tv shows often watched by the masses during the 90s.