THE BIG BALD BOOK CLUB EPISODE FOUR – Under The Hawthorn Tree

I was recently invited to join my hairless friend Martin Corrigan in a new video-podcast adventure, THE BIG BALD BOOK CLUB, which is produced by LAFS, the London Arts Facilitation Society.

The show is described as follows:

Welcome to the BIG BALD BOOK CLUB, where two bald comedians talk about books… with no hair and no nonsense. (There may be some nonsense.) Martin (who prefers more pictures than words) hasn’t really read a lot, while Scott Manley Hadley has read more books than they ever had hairs.

Join Martin and Scott in the BBBC as they read – and sometimes re-read – some of the greatest, some of the baldest and (when schedules demand) some of the shortest books ever written.

Episode 4 is a relatively serious discussion about the Irish YA contemporary classic, Under The Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna. (My prose thoughts on it can be found here.) It’s a book about colonialism, forced famine and the ways in which the impact of this continues to be felt. Serious, I suppose, even if the show isn’t really meant to be serious.

I think/hope there will also be an audio only version for people, like me, who are millennial or older, but I’ll look into that. For now, please just close your eyes as you listen and let the light (not so light this episode) literary chat overwhelm you…

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scott manley hadley aka SOLID BALD live

Here’s a video of me recently performing at the prestigious (it has a Wikipedia page) comedy night, Quantum Leopard. Listen to how much fun the crowd is having. You could have that much fun, too!

Forthcoming gigs include the following – there may/will be others:

6th September: Bear With Me Comedy, Gravesend

21st September: West End New Old Act of the Year HEAT, near Goodge Street

25th September: Worcester

3rd October: SEVENTEEN SONGS ABOUT LONELY VAMPIRES (WIP) at The Bureau of Silly Ideas as part of the Lambeth Fringe

8th October: MARTIN CORRIGAN: HOLDING COURT (WIP) & THE BIG BALD BOOK CLUB LIVE; producer and podcast guest at Lower Marsh Arts Club, part of the Lambeth Fringe

5th November: Isle of Wight

21st November: Twinkles Cabaret, London

10th March 2027: Lydford, Devon