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Spaced and Hot Fuzz chap provides survival tips (of a sort)

I love a good survival guide. You know – the sort of thing that will get you through a kidnapping, or when both the pilot and co-pilot on your plane eat the bad salmon. One of the best I’ve seen in recent years is the deadly serious The Zombie Survival Guide – Complete Protection from the Living Dead written by Max Brooks, who followed this with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Both of these were bloody entertaining, so when I heard of Nick Frost’s Danger! Series – which included a chapter on zombie attacks featuring Shaun of the Dead lead, Simon Pegg – I was looking forward to a good laugh.

Danger! Incoming Attack is the second in Frost’s series – the first was Danger! 50,000 Volts – and here, the good-humoured comedian returns with a new take on the dangers we face in everyday living, in the event of the apocalypse, and on the battlefield. While the first featured a visit from Pegg and his zombie mates, this time around it’s just Frost, and he tackles some interesting subjects. From the making of John Rambo inspired jungle man traps, and the catching and cooking of our good friend Mr Rat, to ways of signalling for rescue when caught in snow-bound mountains, Frost travels the world badgering experts in survival techniques.

When I was a spotty-faced teenager, the choices of shows that taught us about the world around us included The World Around Us – sorry about that – and Simon Townshend’s Wonder World. Thanks to Nick Frost, today’s hormone-challenged youth have an alternative to Totally Wild; the Danger! Series will teach your brother or teenaged son all the good guff on violence and survival. Just keep an eye out when venturing out into the wilds of your overgrown backyard – Junior may have been inspired.

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TIM MILFULL

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