Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off: Oil Rig (Episode 1, Series 3)
Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby Audio Book

Welcome back 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 SaltertonAnd this time, Giles has graduated from University, with a first! He's actually the first person ever to have finished a course in Canadian Studies, and now he's on the job market and looking for anyone who'll have him. Each week, with his trusty portable DAT and his Charterhouse rugby shirt, Giles tries his hand at the sort of jobs that only rich fathers' rich friends get for their idiot sons. Each week he travels to far-off foreign lands, and joins the exotic world of work, and each week, he makes a thumping great prat of himself ...In this first episode, featuring Jessica Hynes ('Spaced') and James Fleet ('Vicar Of Dibley'), Giles tries his hand on board an oilrig in the Cromarty Firth, where he mis-hears the word 'roustabout' with unfortunate consequences and decides to become a roundabout. Along the way, he'll tumble-dry an oilskin and, quite literally, throw a spanner in the works, plus what to do if you're trapped in a decompression chamber with a farting Geordie'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