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A gently hilarious full-cast deconstruction of John Buchan's ripping yarn, courtesy of the British Comedy Company. It's a hoot!
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Well the title looks familiar . . . and Peter Mayle's "A Year in Provence" may have been the trigger for Christopher Marsh's brilliant debut novel - but there the similarities end. Rather than a middle class Brit travelling all the way to the South of France to patronize the locals, Southern Europe gets its own back courtesy of Jesus Sanchez Ventura - the funniest fictional creation in many a year. And I mean that.
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"The World's Worst Poet?"
William Topaz McGonagall is widely renowned as one of the world's worst-ever published poets. Yet his discordant muse is hugely popular all over the world - no less a figure than Spike Milligan was obsessed with him. But how do we account for this morbid fascination with verse of little or no discernible merit whatsoever?
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Finally on audio! 25 of Neil Munro's captivating tales of Para Handy, captain of the "Vital Spark", the "smertest" steamboat ever to sail the River Clyde.
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