Product Description

The Worst Job in Britain is a primetime 6-part BBC 1 series presented by Jeremy Spake, whom we first met in the BBC series Airport. The first series, titled The Toughest Job in Britain, was broadcast in August and September of last year with ratings of around 6 million. Jeremy meets and works with people who have jobs that seem, to many of us, pretty damn awful. Jobs featured include a leech farmer, a sewer flusher, football manager and casualty nurse. One memorable episode featured a turkey farmer where Jeremy helps to artificially inseminate a turkey with a kind of sucking device...Written by Jeremy, the book will provide a humorous behind-the-scenes account of the people he meets, the dreadful jobs they do and the things they get up to, on and off camera.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2648356 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Review
In Toughest Job in Britain (TV tie-in), Jeremy Spake meets and works with people who have jobs that seem to many of us odd, difficult or just plain awful, ranging from leech-farming, sewer-flushing, working in a hospital casualty department and being a lighthouse engineer, to artificially inseminating turkeys!

About the Author
Jeremy Spake first appeared on our screens in the BBC series Airport where he worked as the cuddly Russian-speaking Aeroflot Traffic Supervisor. Since then, Jeremy's television career has taken off and in 2001 he'll be presenting The Worst Jobs in Britain, the BBC's City Hospital and making numerous other television appearances. He is also the author of Jeremy's Airport, published by BBC Books.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Book!
This is a really fantastic book! I especially liked the chapters about the Turkey Inseminators and Sewer Flushers, Jeremy excels in telling the tales behind the camera, and the book is a great supplement to the really watchable TV show.

The informative and relaxed style makes it a real treat to read.

Great Overview of the Jobs you never want to have to do
Toughest Job in Britain "the book" is the perfect partner to the BBC One series. The author has combined many of the programmes highlights with a wealth of back ground (historical) information, as well as tales of what went on that didn't make it into the final transmissions. It's easy to read, and feels as though the author is chatting with you, which is a nice touch. I've thoroughly enjoyed reading this latest book from Jeremy Spake. I've certainly learned how lucky I am to have the job I have, and will now cross off a host of other career options from my list!!

Great read, packed full of humour in an easy to enjoy way...well done!!

Excellent insight into the series
Jeremy once again has managed to write a book to go with a very enjoyable series. The book itself is packed full of behind the scenes events, and is written in his usual easy going and chatty format. It's as though Jeremy were telling you the tales of the series in person. A really enjoyable read, and I look forward to more books from Jeremy.

Helena Roseman