Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off: China (Episode 2, Series 1)
Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby Audio Book

Meet Giles Wemmbley Hogg 2m's, 2g's - Marcus Brigstocke's classic character. Traveller, backpacker, ethnologist, fearless investigator of cultural diversity, connoisseur of all Eastern and Mystic philosophies and upper middle-class student ponce from Budleigh SaltertonIn his gap year between school and University, Giles travels far and wide along the student trail from Beijing to Bolivia by way of Thailand and the North Pole. Each week, with his trusty portable DAT and his Charterhouse rugby shirt, Giles travels to far-off foreign lands, and records his adventures for the benefit of the you, the listener. And each episode, he makes a thumping great prat of himself.In this, the second episode, Giles is off to China, to help mend the Great Wall, sample the delights of genuine Chinese cuisine and wear a very big Mongolian hat. On the way, he'll win the hundred metres, rugby tackle a bicycle and experience a nasty incident with a loose chopstick. So, if you want to hear the sound of a man accidentally toppling 6000 terracotta statues and then eating a Mah Jongg tile, this is the show for you...'Not since I first heard Alan (Partridge) have I felt so sure that I was in the presence of an immortal' - The Sunday Telegraph'Consistently funny and elegantly produced' - Mail On Sunday'Hilarious spoof' - Time Out