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On Cue: The Livography of Phillip Schofield
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ISBN13: 9798170906499
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In 1985, a presenter in his early twenties sat inside a converted BBC storage room barely big enough to stand up in, filling dead air live, with nothing scripted, alongside a puppet named Gordon the Gopher. He would spend the next thirty eight years never really leaving that room, in spirit if not in size.
ON CUE: The Livography of Phillip Schofield traces a career built almost entirely without a safety net, from Saturday morning chaos on Going Live!, through a decade of quiz shows and West End theatre, onto the This Morning sofa where warmth and control had to operate in the same breath for over two decades, and further still onto an ice rink and inside a locked glass cube, where the stakes turned genuinely physical and financial.
Grounded in the historical record and told through a clinical, pattern-tracing lens, this livography argues that four decades of unscripted composure reveal more about a person than any rehearsed statement ever could, and builds toward the one live broadcast where that composure finally, visibly, cracked.
A man who spent his whole career refusing the safety of a second take. Here is the record of what that discipline actually cost him, and what it finally revealed.
Grounded in the historical record and told through a clinical, pattern-tracing lens, this livography argues that four decades of unscripted composure reveal more about a person than any rehearsed statement ever could, and builds toward the one live broadcast where that composure finally, visibly, cracked.
A man who spent his whole career refusing the safety of a second take. Here is the record of what that discipline actually cost him, and what it finally revealed.
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