Joel Morris

Alan Partridge has had more incarnations than Barbie

His latest persona – a weatherbeaten nostalgist restoring a lighthouse in Kent – is a genius metaphor for a national pillar beaming brightly

Partridge repeatedly reminds us how clever his lighthouse metaphor is – but the masterstroke is that it actually is
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  • Big Beacon: A Lighthouse Rebuilt, A Broadcaster Reborn

    Alan Partridge, with Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Steve Coogan

    Seven Dials, pp. 320, £25

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