Miles Jupp Audiobooks

The News Quiz host on cricket and family life, in Fibber in the Heat and Egg and Soldiers

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Who is Miles Jupp?

Miles Jupp, born in 1979, is an English actor and comedian with one of the more eclectic CVs in British comedy. He started in stand-up, became familiar to a generation of small children as Archie the inventor in Balamory, then graduated to two of the sharpest comedies of the era, playing John Duggan in The Thick of It and Nigel McCall in Rev.

Radio 4 listeners may know him best of all: between 2015 and 2019 he hosted The News Quiz, taking over from Sandi Toksvig, and he has appeared on more comedy panel shows than anyone could reasonably count. Jupp occupies a particular niche in British comedy – the courteous, well-spoken presence whose exasperation is always immaculately expressed.

Miles Jupp in audiobooks

Our catalogue holds two of his books, Egg and Soldiers and Fibber in the Heat, and both benefit from the fact that Jupp is a performer by trade. Comic writing by comedians can fall flat on the page; heard aloud, moving at the pace it was written to be spoken at, it lands as intended. His is a very British register – dry, self-deprecating, precise – and listeners who know his voice from The News Quiz will find the books feel like extended, better-organised sittings of his company. Gentle in the best sense, and reliably funny.