10
REALLY OBSCURE FACTS ABOUT CASH PETERS
YOU DIDN'T KNOW, AND VERY PROBABLY NEVER WANTED TO.
1. He
has a degree in law.
2. He worked for eight years as the clerk
to a High Court judge in London before
switching to radio.
3. His first job after school was cleaning
the stomachs out of chickens.
4.
He has written three books abouthandwriting
analysis.
5. Either alone or jointly, he
has
won two Sony Awards, the
Benjamin Franklin Award for
Humor, and a Peabody Award.
6.
He was the voice of Charlie Chaplin in the
7.
He and his partner have three cats: Sasha, Stinky,
and Mr Gray.
8.
He has had psychic surgery.
9.
Years ago, he reached certified teaching standard
on the piano, then stopped. Now he can't
play a note.
10. In the 1980s, he was responsible for one
of the
greatest April Fool hoaxes of all time in England.
Books and magazines still feature the joke
which has become a classic.
Cash has written seven books altogether, including his latest travel book, Naked in Dangerous Places (available April 21st), and a more recent one that he won't talk about, but it's thought to be a novel. No details are available, not even about the genre.
So why all the mystery?
"Hang on, how do you know it's a mystery? Who told you that?" he said, sounding panicked.
His last two published books have been travel-related. The first, Gullible's Travels, covered the years he spent visiting bad museums and tours across America for public radio. The new one, Naked in Dangerous Places, is the sequel, and chronicles a year of traveling the world, living with various weird tribes and cultures while making his TV show.
CASH
PETERS is an author and broadcaster based in Los Angeles, California.
Born in Stockport, England, he launched his career at the age of 15, writing
for The Two Ronnies, a primetime TV comedy show in the UK. Jokes
he wrote on his way to school appeared on several other major radio and TV
shows too, as well as in The Two Ronnies books.
In the early 70s, he won the BBC's Young Filmmaker of the Year Contest (only
to be disqualified on a stupid technicality, grrrr). By the time he hit college,
he had his own weekly radio show on the BBC and was a regular movie reviewer
on Radio 1.
As well as working for Capital Radio and BBC TV in London, he co-hosted ITV's Talking Telephone Numbers with Phillip Schofield and Emma Forbes, and It's Been a Bad Week with Chris Tarrant.
In the U.S. he was a reporter on CNN (for a day) and had his own travel show
on cable TV (for a year).
He
can currently be heard on Marketplace on American public radio, and
every week live on BBC Radio 5 Live.
