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  • #11391
    si
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    Robert Llewellyn’s brilliant book The Man In The Rubber Mask is now available on Audioboo via Robert’s profile. The first three chapters have been available for a little while, but Robert’s now made the rest of the book available for an incredibly decent £4.99.

    Details – and the audiobook itself – are here:

    https://audioboo.fm/channel/rubbermask

    It is a great book, as I’m sure most of you know, and paying just a fiver for just under Five hours of Robert reading it to you is something of a bargain. :)

    (I was going to post this news in G&T’s piece about the book here – http://www.ganymede.tv/indepth/tmitrm-epilogue – but decided to put it on the forum instead…)

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  • #113437
    JamesTC
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    Bought my download.

    #113440
    Mr-Stabby
    Participant

    Ooh thanks. Will definitely get that.

    #113447
    si
    Participant

    Even better: you spend your fiver, and that includes all the still-being-written updates, as explained by Robert here:

    http://llewblog.squarespace.com/books/

    #113451
    JamesTC
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    Fantastic value. Didn’t know the subscription included the upcoming Series VI-X update. Plus interviews with cast and crew of Series X!

    #113455
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    Tempting. But I’m so broke. It can wait.

    #113469
    si
    Participant

    Couldn’t help myself. Have now finished listening to the whole book(so far!) whilst reading along with my battered, 1994 first edition, well thumbed paperback. Robert’s impressions of cast members (especially Danny) and Americans are brilliant.
    Well worth a fiver of anyone’s money.

    #113682
    Steven Rankin
    Participant

    Will be buying this some point next week. Can’t wait

    #115576
    si
    Participant

    Robert’s just posted a Boo letting know all about the current goings-on with regard to Rubber Mask 2. There’s also an amusing excerpt from his forthcoming Red Dwarf VI chapter…

    http://boo.fm/b692127

    #115577
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    I’ve rather lost track of this. Is there going to be an ebook anytime soon?

    #115590
    si
    Participant

    Series VI chapter now available – 38 glorious minutes. :)

    http://bit.ly/sBfUHM

    #115594
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    lovely. Will sync up itunes tomorrow. that’s 38 minutes of the afternoon sorted then.

    #115649
    Claire
    Participant

    I’ve just subscribed to this and am working my way through it – it’s great so far. :)

    I have a question – the abandoned scene from “Marooned” Robert describes, where Cat’s supposed to be using Kryten as a sled. Is it lost like the sauna scene was until recently? And are there other lost deleted scenes?

    #116447
    si
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    Robert’s added another couple of chapters recently, and for those of you who have paid your fiver, he’s uploaded his memories of 1998/series eight this evening.

    A funny 40 minutes include a rant about money, and a misplaced anecdote from series seven. :)

    https://audioboo.fm/channel/rubbermask

    #116448
    ori-STUDFARM
    Participant

    I’d paid the fiver a while back…and then couldn’t find the new files. Although I only quickly looked and then forgot to go searching again. Cheers Si for reminding me…downloading now :)

    #117781
    si
    Participant

    Robert’s just Tweeted a link to an interview he’s given to Kryten about the MITRM AudioBoo-k.

    Silly and amusing. :)

    http://t.co/gFGcSbn4

    #117782
    Alex
    Participant

    Next thing he’ll be playing himself at snooker and releasing podcasts of it.

    #117780
    Mr-Stabby
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    Is it just me, or does Robert not actually sound like Kryten when he does the voice outside of the TV show? He sounds like someone doing a reasonable impression.

    #117778
    Pecospete666
    Participant

    He’s become a real Twitter Whore!
    He should be doing some cryptic RDX hints
    I expect to see him on TV at 4am selling SHAMWOWS!

    #117771
    HelloMabel
    Participant

    > Is it just me, or does Robert not actually sound like Kryten when he does the voice outside of the TV show? He sounds like someone doing a reasonable impression.

    It’s not just you, I can kind of hear it – like it’s the same voice, just not a full out performance. Perhaps the pitch is a bit lower. But it’s to be expected because in the show there is the excitement of the audience, and he gets to play off the other actors – all the things that make recording a show different from an audiobook. Plus the audiobook is so long that if he gave a full out performance, I expect he’d soon have no voice left.

    #200977
    si
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    Just discovered that Robert uploaded a new chapter (Part Two, Chapter Four) to AudioBoo around 12 hours ago. I am listening to it as I write. A new 15 minute chapter, detailing a major event or two from the wilderness years. It’s 2001. It’s Red Dwarf – The Movie…

    https://audioboo.fm/channel/rubbermask

    #201305
    si
    Participant

    Robert Tweeted this at 10:10 this morning: https://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/249435515022090240

    If all goes well today, I will upload another chapter on #ManintheRubberMask audiobook

    Here’s hoping…

    https://audioboo.fm/channel/rubbermask

    #201306
    Mr-Stabby
    Participant

    Enjoyed the last chapter. Although most of Red Dwarf has been well documented on the DVDs, the movie is still something i don’t know much about. I knew they went in for some costume tests, but i didn’t know they were basically ready for the shoot and had planned it and everything.

    #201331
    MANI506
    Participant

    Brilliant – best fiver I ever spent!

    #201502
    si
    Participant

    Part Two, Chapter Five now up. Covers Back To Earth.

    https://audioboo.fm/channel/rubbermask

    I’ve only managed to listen to about 15minutes, but the chapter lasts a whole 38 minutes.

    #204144
    si
    Participant

    The latest/final chapter – Part Two, Chapter Six – should be up soon. This, I suspect, will bring us bang up to date, including the reading, recording and maybe even the DVD release for all I know, of Red Dwarf X.

    Robert has Tweeted a couple of times in the last couple of days suggesting that it’s fairly imminent, but nothing as yet.
    He did say that there was a “minor technical fault” last night, but also said this morning that it’d be up today “if all goes well”.

    So, this is just a heads up. If you’ve paid your fiver, keep checking.

    https://audioboo.fm/channel/rubbermask

    #204145
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    My itunes may surprise me, i’m a long way to go, it makes for excellent relaxy sunday afternoon listening…

    #204159
    MANI506
    Participant

    I’m a massive fan of this updated audio boo. Nice one Bobby!

    #204160
    MANI506
    Participant

    New chapter isn’t up yet..

    #204198
    si
    Participant

    It appears to be up now, 40 minutes long, I think. :)

    *downloads*

    #204199
    JamesTC
    Participant

    Currently listening to it. It seems to be the wrong version. A version with a couple of mistakes left in after 13 minutes.

    At 15:40 he burps.

    #204202
    si
    Participant

    Yes, I’ve just passed that bit. Full of fluffs, mistakes, repeated lines, belches etc. Amusing that, at that point, he’d juat been speaking about SmegUps. :)

    #204205
    si
    Participant

    I tweeted about the burps etc. Robert

    @bromley001 Slight worry, now wondering if I’ve put up the wrong file. Oooooooh dear

    #204211
    HelloMabel
    Participant

    Has anyone reminded him that the warm-up guy for “Trojan” was Tom Price, not Ray Peacock?

    #204218
    si
    Participant

    Ah. Forty minutes in, we’ve had our fill of fluffs etc, We’re halfway through the making of Lemons, and the file’s ended. Yes, it was probably the wrong one, Robert.

    #204220
    HelloMabel
    Participant

    An honest mistake.

    Naming your kid Louie Llewellyn, though, that’s just evil. :)

    #204228
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    Do his kids definitely have Llewellyn as a surname? I know Judie (his wife) doesn’t…

    #204234
    si
    Participant

    Maybe that’s not his name at all. Maybe it’s a nickname -‘ Llewie’ – and his actual name is Steve or something.

    #204237
    HelloMabel
    Participant

    I hadn’t thought of that; I guess he might be Louie Pascoe.

    It’s not like its a big deal or anything, it just reminds me of a certain classic from The Kingsmen.

    #204245
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster

    Robert’s surname isn’t Llewellyn either – I doubt the kids would take his stage name.

    #204246
    si
    Participant

    Is it not? I honestly didn’t know that. Wasn’t his father called Llewellyn on that family histry show on Channel Five the other month?

    #204247
    Ben Kirkham
    Participant

    He’s David Ross in disguise, isn’t he?

    #204251
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster

    I could be wrong, but I could have sworn his name was Robert Allen. See also: Chris Brown. Seem to recall that Hattie is a non de plume too, but can’t remember the specifics.

    #204252
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    I knew Chris Barrie’s surname isn’t Barrie, but Robert’s i didnt know about…

    #204255
    si
    Participant

    Ditto.

    #204258
    Ben Kirkham
    Participant

    “I knew Chris Barrie’s surname isn’t Barrie, but Robert’s i didnt know about…”

    I knew nothing of any of this.

    Do you mean I’ve spent the last twenty years of my life being lied to? *sob*

    #204336
    si
    Participant

    I was Ditto-ing Danny’s comment about his mind being blown by Hattie being a stagename, which has since vanished, and Ian’s original comment altered blah blah blah…

    Anyway, Robert’s put a new version of the first part of chapter 6 up on AudioBoo, after taking the original one down when we started telling him about the burping. The new version takes us as far as Christmas 2011.

    #204338
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    I knew nothing of any of this.
    Do you mean I’ve spent the last twenty years of my life being lied to? *sob*

    First time I became aware was when Chris was at a Q&A and he was recalling a story of when he was fired at Harrods for riding a bicycle around the store and I think impersonating the manager. Over the tannoy system. And he kept referring to himself as ‘Mr Brown’ when doing said impersonation of said manager. I dont think he makes any bones about the stage name, it’s on ze Wikipedia. Robert’s isn’t, but i’m still not 100% on that one…

    #204339
    HelloMabel
    Participant

    TIL tannoy system, fascia, and the phenomenon of awarding an Internet.

    #204340
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    This proves nothing…but does contain quite a bit of info:

    http://www.tv.com/people/robert-llewellyn/

    “Robert is the son of Reg and Brenda Llewellyn, both now deceased”

    #204359
    anniescribe
    Participant

    Let’s all take a minute to give thanks that Chris had the foresight 30 years ago to pick a different professional name in anticipation of NOT being confused* with that misogynistic little shit in the USA**.

    *Yes, I know that wasn’t the reason.

    **I’m American too, and I can say this.

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