Robert Webb (2017 Event)
2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
English - November 13, 2017 05:22 - 56 minutes - 39 MB - ★★★ - 1 ratingBooks Arts edbookfest charlotte square Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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UNDERSTANDING THE MALE OF THE SPECIES
What is it to be male? Peep Show actor Robert Webb reckons it involves a heap of unnecessary pressure applied from a very early age. With his call-to-arms memoir How Not To Be A Boy, Webb considers his own inculcation into the cult of man and how bending those stringent rules is not easy in a world which expects males to have a certain, well, maleness about them.