Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-05-27
Dewey code: 814.54
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.98
Review Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim / Time Warner AudioBooks:Most of us would be lucky to be able to express ourselves in writing half as well as David Sedaris does in Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. But on top of his skills with the written word, the author also has substantial gifts as a performer, and he proves this on the audio version of the book. In his essay The Change in Me, Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people, and it's clear that he takes after her. Whether he's doing impressions of high-voiced brother Paul, or recalling times when he and his sisters tried to win good karma by speaking and acting like well-behaved, fairytale children, Sedaris's nuanced performance hits the right note in both the opening, comedic stories, and the more poignant essays that tend to come later in the reading. Sedaris's career is closely linked with two things: audio (he was discovered by NPR's Ira Glass), and the personal lives of himself and his family. In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he describes fights with his boyfriend, and of his sister-in-law's difficult pregnancy. When sister Lisa complains about the stories involving the family, he writes about that, too. Sedaris's latest provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him so well. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally. -Leah Weathersby, Amazon. [+]com.
Publication date: 2005-07-25
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.99
Review Lee Evans: Wired and Wonderful Live at Wembley / Sound Entertainment Limited:
Publication date: 2007-02-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.61
Review I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again: v. 5 (BBC Audiobooks) / I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again:
Publication date: 2007-06-07
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.25
Review Best of Blowers / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2002-03-04
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £79.99
Price: £52.07
Review Hancock's Half Hour: Collectors Edition (Series Four: October 1956 - February 1957) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:When Ray Galton and Alan Simpson created Hancock's Half Hour-their first big hit before Steptoe and Son-they needed a supporting cast, and their choices were inspired. Sid James became the quintessential shifty crook, Bill Kerr played Tony Hancock's best friend while Moira Lister became his girlfriend, and as Kenneth Williams intoned a variety of authority-voices-police, magistrates, etc. -another comic star was born. Out of the 16 original programmes from the period under review, the BBC managed to lose six-culpable carelessness-but among the extant 10 there are outright gems, some of which will be unfamiliar even to fans, and many of which would today be banned as hopelessly un-PC. Viz Hancock's cheery greeting: "Morning Charlie. Working? Oh, of course you don't need to, with 28 children!" Or his observation-of some sluggish British workmen building a house-that he's glad they've been provided with shovels complete with arm-rests. Asked for his own address, he replies "I've just moved. They pulled down my house to build a slum". Relayed cold, such comments may not even raise a smile: Hancock's magic was all in the telling, and in the momentum he built up, as in his Monte Carlo rally programme, in which signposts were turned round and bridges blown up. One of the nicest sketches evolves out of him being left to do the housework like Cinderella, while everyone else troops off to the ball. [+]When he died, a victim of depression, in Australia in 1968, Britain lost something irreplaceable: this five-CD set, with its accompanying booklet, makes a splendid memento. The next batch of releases is eagerly awaited. -Betty Tadman.
Creator: Graham Stark
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.61
Review The Goon Show Classics: Goon Show and Guests Vol 16 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-04-04
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.61
Review "Father Ted" (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Harry Secombe
Publication date: 2001-09-03
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.54
Review The Goon Show Classics: Four Original BBC Radio Episodes Vol 19 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Martin Freeman
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-10-06
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.95
Review So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Jen Green
Publication date: 2005-07-25
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.57
Review Jeff Green: Debauched Cherub / Sound Entertainment Limited:
Publication date: 2005-02-07
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.90
Review The Good Life", Backs to the Wall: No. 2 (BBC Radio Collection) / John Esmonde & Bob Larbey:
Edition: Collector's Ed
Publication date: 2006-07-03
RRP: £65.00
Price: £42.43
Review The "Navy Lark": Series 3 (Navy Lark) / The Navy Lark:
Creator: Dawn French
Publication date: 2004-10-04
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.79
Review "Vicar of Dibley": WITH The Window and the Weather AND Elections AND Animals AND Engagement Vol 3 (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-07-25
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.00
Review An Evening with Joyce Grenfell / Sound Entertainment Limited:
Publication date: 2000-11-06
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.99
Review The Royle Family (Radio Collection) / The Royle Family:
Publication date: 2004-04-05
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £69.99
Price: £38.60
Review "Round the Horne": Series 4 (Radio Collection) / Round the Horne:
Publication date: 2003-11-10
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £40.00
Price: £21.68
Review Knowing Me, Knowing You...: With Alan Partridge: Collecter's Edition (Canned Laughter) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-01-01
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.49
Review Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Martin Freeman
Publication date: 2006-06-02
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.29
Review The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Macmillan Audio Books:
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Lee Evans: Wired and Wonderful Live at Wembley, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again: v. 5 (BBC Audiobooks), Best of Blowers, Hancock's Half Hour: Collectors Edition (Series Four: October 1956 - February 1957), The Goon Show Classics: Goon Show and Guests Vol 16 (BBC Radio Collection), "Father Ted" (BBC Audio), The Goon Show Classics: Four Original BBC Radio Episodes Vol 19 (BBC Radio Collection), So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Jeff Green: Debauched Cherub, The Good Life", Backs to the Wall: No. 2 (BBC Radio Collection), The "Navy Lark": Series 3 (Navy Lark), "Vicar of Dibley": WITH The Window and the Weather AND Elections AND Animals AND Engagement Vol 3 (Radio Collection), An Evening with Joyce Grenfell, The Royle Family (Radio Collection), "Round the Horne": Series 4 (Radio Collection), Knowing Me, Knowing You...: With Alan Partridge: Collecter's Edition (Canned Laughter), Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe |
