{"id":72470,"date":"2025-08-17T03:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72470\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T03:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:06:08","slug":"gavin-and-staceys-larry-lamb-says-hes-not-averse-to-penning-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72470\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin and Stacey’s Larry Lamb says he’s not averse to penning poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

He said that in 2020 he found a file of them in the attic and showed them to a poet friend. <\/p>\n

“And he was really impressed and said, ‘We have got to do something with these’. <\/p>\n

“So cut to quite recently and I started to write poems again. A lot of them about the same period in my life.” <\/p>\n

On 27 September he will be reading his work for the first time, along with some of his favourite poems from his childhood, at Hereford Military History Festival.<\/p>\n

“So I’m going to be close to Wales,” he said.<\/p>\n

Larry said he surprised himself when he started writing in 1983.<\/p>\n

“But now I have got a lot more experience, a lot more time in life,” he told Lucy Owen<\/a> on BBC Radio Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said that in 2020 he found a file of them in the attic and showed them to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-72470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}