And now I can talk about my birth father without feeling like …” He does an impression of a tortured superhero in pain.

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The show featured stand up, spoofs like his send up of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, and many of the characters he had developed during Summer Season, including Theophilus P.

However, stories are magical things – and it is not long before the pair discover that the Nine Dominions are of course real. All of a sudden you’d been in the African jungle and people were wearing grass skirts and saying ‘Unga bunga’ … You can’t process something like that as a kid. A superbly fun and witty story about stories and storytelling with wonderfully diverse representation - Twins Bran and Fran attend a British Sign Language school; Bran is deaf. After reluctantly moving to the tiny village of Knobbly Bottom, Maggie is astonished when she encounters a flock of vampire sheep who are determined to take over the world.

The Book of Legends by Sir Lenny Henry - Pan Macmillan

The audiobook is narrated by Lenny Henry and is vivacious and highly entertaining with Lenny Henry providing a wide array of voices . She encouraged him to move over to the fledgling alternative comedy scene, where he established a career as a stand-up comedy performer and character comedian. The Book of Legends, a quest novel in the vein of Tolkien or CS Lewis, is his second children’s book. Wildebeeste (a homage to Teddy Pendergrass using the 'TP' initials), Brixton pirate radio disc jockey DJ Delbert Wilkins and Trevor MacDoughnut (a parody of Trevor McDonald). But when mum goes missing and her stories turn out to be a portal to another world, they're going to have a huge, magical adventure on their hands.The following year he appeared with Norman Beaton in LWT's sitcom The Fosters, Britain's first comedy series with predominantly black performers. He devised The Boy With Wings as a superhero story “because when I was young, there weren’t any who looked like me”.