Fred: The Definitive Biography of Fred Dibnah
David Hall Audio Book

Tracing his ancestry through six generations – slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, he discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in anguish and torment brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley’s deep and distant past.

Definitive biography of fred dibnah
Fred Dibnah won the hearts of millions with his television programmes about his life as a steeplejack, and his passion for the industrial history of Britain. With his trademark flat cap, enthusiasm and knowledge of the country’s steam past, his gift for storytelling, and his cry of ‘Did you like that?’ as another giant chimney slid to earth behind him, he quickly became a genuine favourite with viewers.

This is an intimate portrait of Fred, from his childhood to his struggles to make ends meet before television made him a household name, and his occasionally troubled private life. We discover all the different sides of Fred’s personality—engineer, steeplejack, artist, craftsman, stream enthusiast, inventor, storyteller and eccentric. This definitive biography will delight Fred’s many fans.