{"id":12771,"date":"2014-11-14T00:43:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T23:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12771"},"modified":"2014-11-14T00:43:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T23:43:21","slug":"david-mitchell-thinking-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12771","title":{"rendered":"David Mitchell Thinking Out Loud in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMark Thornton from Mostly Books was interviewing David Mitchell at the Amey Theatre in Abingdon this evening.<\/p>\n

David, a very well known actor, comedian, and writer, has put together the best of his writings from his Observer column into a book called “Thinking about it only makes it worse, and other lessons from modern life.<\/i>” It covers the last 6 years from the banking crisis when Labour was in power through the resulting Con-Dem coalition years.
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\nDavid attended Abingdon School, where he enjoyed debating and theatrical productions, and was very good academically. He spoke with honesty and humour on lots of topics including Private Education and its Charitable Status, The Internet, and Madame Tussauds.
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\nHe signed a lot of books.
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\nThe queue stretched at one stage  from the stage out  through the foyer.<\/p>\n

I agreed totally with what he had to say about Private Schools but not about Madame Tussauds<\/a>. It is more than just an antiquated wax works,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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