Creator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2006-11-02
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.40
Review Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit? / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2003-08-04
Price: £6.99
Review Steptoe and Son: 2 / Steptoe and Son:
Creator: John Culshaw
Publication date: 2004-07-05
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.86
Review "Dead Ringers" TV Series 2 (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-10-10
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.58
Review "Dead Ringers": The Best of the Radio Series (BBC Audio) / Dead Ringers:
Publication date: 2000-11-06
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.95
Review The Royle Family (Radio Collection) / The Royle Family:
Publication date: 1994-11-07
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.98
Review Harry Enfield's Television Programme (Canned Laughter) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-09-01
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.48
Review Hancock's Half Hour: Four Original BBC TV Episodes (Radio Collection) / 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.
Publication date: 2004-05-03
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.57
Review Kafka's Dick (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 1998-03-16
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £7.00
Price: £4.17
Review Choice Grenfell: Performed by Maureen Lipman (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-07-22
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.10
Review Jim Davidson Live: Vote for Jim! / Sound Entertainment Limited:
Publication date: 2004-11-29
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99
Review "Dead Ringers" TV Series 3 (Radio Collection) / Dead Ringers:
Publication date: 2004-11-15
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.61
Review How to Live and Other Shows (Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation) / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.31
Review Eddie Izzard - Sexie / Laughing Stock Production Ltd:
Creator: Rob Steen
Publication date: 2005-11-03
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.87
Review Flanimals: The Story So Far / Faber and Faber:
Edition: TV Tie in Ed
Publication date: 2004-09-09
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.50
Review The Grumpy Old Men Official Handbook / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-02-04
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.69
Review Cowards (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
RRP: £7.99
Price: £8.55
Review "Mighty Boosh": Live:
Publication date: 2004-11-08
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.94
Review Have You Heard the One About?: v. 1 / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Edition: International Ed
Publication date: 2005-02-21
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.99
Review The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase / BBC Audiobooks:
Creator: Harry Secombe
Publication date: 1999-11-01
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.49
Review The Goon Show Classics: The Reason Why/The Treasure in the Tower/The Plasticine Man/The Silent Bugler. Four Original BBC Radio Episodes Vol 17 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?, Steptoe and Son: 2, "Dead Ringers" TV Series 2 (Radio Collection), "Dead Ringers": The Best of the Radio Series (BBC Audio), The Royle Family (Radio Collection), Harry Enfield's Television Programme (Canned Laughter), Hancock's Half Hour: Four Original BBC TV Episodes (Radio Collection), Kafka's Dick (BBC Radio Collection), Choice Grenfell: Performed by Maureen Lipman (BBC Radio Collection), Jim Davidson Live: Vote for Jim!, "Dead Ringers" TV Series 3 (Radio Collection), How to Live and Other Shows (Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation), Eddie Izzard - Sexie, Flanimals: The Story So Far, The Grumpy Old Men Official Handbook, Cowards (BBC Audio), "Mighty Boosh": Live, Have You Heard the One About?: v. 1, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase, The Goon Show Classics: The Reason Why/The Treasure in the Tower/The Plasticine Man/The Silent Bugler. Four Original BBC Radio Episodes Vol 17 (BBC Radio Collection) |
