Keith Brymer Jones discusses his memoir Boy in a China Shop with Marj Hogarth

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Ballet dancer. Front man in an almost famous band. Judge on The Great Pottery Throwdown. How did all that happen?
Join Keith as he describes being given a lump of clay as a dyslexia impacted schoolchild as the first of a series of life-changing moments for him. His hand-thrown pottery is now world famous and Boy in a China Shop: Life, Clay and Everything tells his fascinating story of overcoming adversity through hard work, skill and determination.
Keith will be in conversation with his partner and actress Marj Hogarth (M.I.High, Still Game and The Karen Dunbar Show).
In his first memoir, Boy in a China Shop, Keith reveals how he went from a North London boyhood to a global success. But this book is about so much more than pottery.
It’s about a boy who was given a lump of clay and overcame adversity through hard work, skill and determination.
Keith speaks candidly, and with warmth, about his formative experiences, including training as a ballet dancer and leading an almost famous rock band, but also about how dyslexia impacted on his early years. All until a sympathetic art teacher intervened and changed everything.
For years he worked long hours as a ‘clay boy’ at Harefield Pottery to learn his craft, before setting up his own business. But his big break came when Heals took a range of his hand-thrown pottery and he’s never looked back.
His emotional connection to the clay and his work has been a constant from the beginning and sits at the centre of this inspirational story, told through a series of chapters centred around meaningful items. Unsurprisingly, most are pots.
Boy in a China Shop is a story about how our lived experiences shape the people we become,how we all have a story, and ultimately, it is as satisfying as one of Keith's world famous pots.
"During downtime on the pottery throwdown Keith made my hair curl with some of his tales - he's a great raconteur and recounts his story in this book as he does in real life -with joy, charm & mischief." Sara Cox, radio DJ, TV presenter and author

[@ucatronic]

This is lovely. Big big fan of the show so is my mother and I just realised I used to work with Marj years and years ago. Marj is a cool lady, what a wonderful couple!

[@elizabethringus9738]

I just watched this and absolutely loved that KBJ did a prison pottery class! I designed a pottery program here in South Carolina where I teach the men in a level 2 correctional institution…been doing it for 10 years now and the men absolutely love it. They say it’s the best program on the yard. I could write a book on the impact this program has on changing the men. Cheers to clay !
I named the program “Jeremiah 18 pottery program” ….in the Bible, Jeremiah chapter 18 vs. 1-6 describes exactly the correlation of change. Oh, and I bought your book for the prison pottery program, too!

[@gillianloomes-quinn1289]

KBJ is just such a Good Man ❤

[@Hagar_le_Horrible]

1200 views n 12 likes! C'mon...