Alasdair Beckett-King
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1,752 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Alasdair Beckett-King’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I hated the Americanism.
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I they were so American and so old fashioned.
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And I think even as a kid, they were very obviously extremely conservative in their values.
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And as a left wing kid I was like, nah, that's that's rubbish.
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But after the first or second book they just start solving mysteries.
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My favourite one was Snowbound Mystery, I think it's called, but they've kept reprinting them and they've updated the way the kids look.
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In the nineteen twenty four one, I've I'm looking at a picture of Henry, the older boy who's thirteen.
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He's got like a comb over.
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He looks like a middle aged man.
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Yes, very sort of lacquered on hair.
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Do
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all got the little curls like the munchkins.
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The lollipops.
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Snowbound Mystery was really good, but I saw a copy of it recently where 'cause they keep updating them.
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Where the kids are all in like shell suit ski outfits.
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Like it's the eighties.
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Yeah.
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Dressed in sort of saved by the belly era clothes.
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I just don't understand how the the writing and values of the books could possibly work with these outfits.
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I don't know a thing about Spain.
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