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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And what is your hypothetical child called?
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I'm stuck on my child's name, but I suppose in the spirit of the book I should call it James Alistair.
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Because my middle name is James.
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No, I wouldn't.
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I think it's the f one of the first ones we've read where it wouldn't be fun to do any of the voices.
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No,
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Obviously, unless you do it in your nineteen forties fanfatale voice.
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I don't think it's a book to be read.
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I think it's a book for children to read because that was what Gertrude Chandler Warner said that the librarians didn't always like it, but the kids liked it.
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I think we have this idea that children just uncritically Yes.
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Consume things.
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And I suppose, yeah, we should probably avoid giving kids revolting propaganda, broadly speaking.
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Broadly.
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But I think actually you you can be quite critical as a kid, or at least I was.
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If every child is as intelligent as I was as a child, then I think they'll be fine.
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Because I remember reading things like this and just going, That's nonsense.
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Yeah.
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That's what I've gone with.
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You've gone with a T shirt that says not an once.
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Those are our opinions.
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