Jez Booker

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766 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Jez Booker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson · Music, Marketing & Memories with Jez Booker 🥁 [993] · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

That's him.

Yeah.

Marshall McLuhan.

The message is the media.

Well, I wanted, sorry to be technical, I'm just trying to plug in so I don't run out of any power or anything.

I wanted to be an actor at one point, so I kept doing plays at uni, and I remember I was Oberon, King of the Fairies, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, in the courtyard of the University of Nottingham.

Yeah, Shakespeare.

Shakespeare.

Yeah, and I got on the cover of the university magazine and in the papers and I was like, yeah, I'm going to be a star.

I was dressed up as David Barry.

I did it like I had somebody paint my face like a red stripe and I was trying to be... I had pink hair.

I dyed my hair red, hoping it would be bright red, and it went pink because of the natural colour of my hair.

A bit crazy.

But I loved acting, and I did quite a few plays, and I did a few where I was like the lead role of a couple of things.

But nobody ever said, yes, you're a brilliant actor.

You need to be an actor.

So I guess I need that outside validation or something.

And so I never went down that route.

So I went, I left with a good degree.

I got a 2.1.

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