Richard Gadd: Monkey See, Monkey Do

Gadd pounds a treadmill. He is training for the Man’s Man Final in Mansfield. The ultimate competition of manly masculinity. He is determined to win. Determined. Especially after the embarrassment of last year… Never mind that. Run. Run. Run. Pound. Pound. Pound. Just what was it lurking in his imagination which cost him last year’s title? And what is this monkey doing baring down on him at every turn? Never mind that. Run. Run. Run. Pound. Pound. Pound. Dare he speak the secret that cost him last year’s title? Or will he keep running until his heart gives out and his knees shut down? This is Gadd’s biggest secret. A lurid, unsparing portrait of a consciousness in meltdown – as the clock ticks on the most tightly held secret of his life…