Hold the Front Page and Send in the Clowns

Paperback 284 pages ISBN 9781904959588 Author: Peter Brown Price £12.00 (price includes delivery worldwide) Publication date 17 September 2007

Synopsis

When did you last put down any newspaper, turn to the person with you and say: “I did enjoy that. It was a bundle of laughs!”

You don’t, do you. There’s so much unhappiness, so much misery, in the newspapers these days. But if you only knew what went into getting that news into your newspaper, then you would see a totally different world.

In his first book, journalist and family entertainer, Peter Brown goes behind the scenes of a typical regional evening newspaper and reveals what really goes on. And if that isn’t enough to have you scouring the columns of your local paper for the printing errors, and the headlines which have those dodgy double meanings that no one has spotted until it has been too late, he also gives a unique insight into 40 years as a semi-professional juggler, rope-spinner and clown.