Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is stand up comedian Andy White. We start by talking about his victory on ‘The Weakest Link’ in 2002 and how the prize enabled him to pay for his wedding. Andy tells us about the work he has done for the National Autistic Society and we talk about our apprehension of ‘slightly obscure celebrities’. We learn how he ended up at university - Andy initially went to Aston to study town planning and then moved to Lampeter to study English where he enjoyed rattling tins for Rag and going to London to protest against the BNP. Andy explains why he didn’t mind that Lampeter was in the middle of nowhere and how he threw himself into it, and we talk about the political careers of some of the people who studied there and some of the eccentric figures that populated Lampeter. We find out how Andy got into stand up and how petrified he was when he did his first gig and then found that the microphone wasn’t working. He tells us about the different ways to ‘read’ an audience, and the difference bet