The Beginners Guide to Karl
The beginners guide to Karl Pilkington is a page dedicated to chronicalling the complete works of Karl, giving information on his works and how you can access it.
More information on Karl and his earlier career are available on his page.
The XFM Shows
The earliest work we have from Karl that is available to listen to are the XFM shows. Running from 2001-2005, Pilkipedia hosts 92 shows which were recorded during this era.
Karl was producer on the shows which were hosted by Ricky Gervais and Stephen merchant, but soon became the heart of the show with his thoughts, beliefs and love of monkeys and the strange.
The collection is almost complete, with only a handful of shows missing at the beginning of their stint on the radio.
They are available to download for free from the xfm download page either singularly or in bulk via torrent.
click here to be redirected to the XFM download page
The Ricky Gervais Podcast
After the XFM shows, Karl moved into doing podcasts, again with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, but this time dropping the producer title and being the main attraction.
The podcasts ran from 2005 - 2008 with 5 series of podcasts.
The series are;
Series one, which was originally hosted for free by guardian.co.uk but has since become available as audiobooks on itunes
Series two, which followed the first series as a set of audiobooks for sale on itunes
Series three, again followed up as a series of audiobooks on itunes
The Podfather Trilogy (Series four), which was again, hosted by guardian.co.uk for free, but were later released as audiobooks from itunes
Series five, which was the final series of audiobooks available from itunes
Karls Books
During the recording of the ricky gervais show podcasts, Karl started work on writing books.
His first, The World of Karl Pilkington (2006), was a collection of transcripts from series one of the podcasts along with original artwork from Karl.
Karl followed this up with Happyslapped by a Jellyfish (2007). A collection of stories and anecdotes of Karls travels around the world.
His third and final book, Karlology (2008), chronicles Karls search for knowledge.
All three are available to buy from all good book stores or online.
3 Minute Wonders
In 2006 Karl created 3 minute long documentary shorts for channel 4.
Episode 1: Life YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bHS4bXRGYE
Episode 2: Holidays YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKGHDCqOIvs
Episode 3: Health YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrs-AcvFtpQ
Episode 4: Nature YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGS3eYn5Cxk
Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool
In October 2007, Karl appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool. In it, he interviews scholars and writers in an attempt to discover whether intelligence is the key to happiness.
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