Review, buy Radio Shows: "Goon Show 24", the Case of the Missing Heir (BBC Audio), The Goon Show Classics: You Have Deaded Me Again (Previously Volume 8) (BBC Radio Collection), The Lady in the Van (BBC Radio Collection), Hancock's Half Hour, the Lost Episodes (Radio Collection), Hancock's Happy Christmas: Four Original BBC Radio Episodes (BBC Radio Collection), Johnners at the BEEB (BBC Radio Collection), The Goon Show Classics: My Knees Have Fallen Off (Previously Volume 4) (BBC Radio Collection), Rumpole and the Primrose Path (BBC Radio Collection), An Evening with Johnners, Alistair Cooke at the BBC (BBC Radio Collection), Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case: BBC Radio 4 Full Cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection), Dylan Thomas at the "BBC" (Radio Collection), Pam Ayres in Potting on (BBC Audio), The Goon Show Classics: You Can't Get the Wood You Know! (Previously Volume 10) (BBC Radio Collection), Knowing Me, Knowing You...: With Alan Partridge: No.2 (Canned Laughter), The Goon Show Classics: Needle Nardle Noo! Vol 14 (BBC Radio Collection), The Skull Beneath the Skin: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection), Revolting People: Series 2 (BBC Audio), Round the Horne, the Collector's Edition: Series 2 (8 CDs): Series 2, The News Quiz: Stop Press! (BBC Audio)

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"Goon Show 24", the Case of the Missing Heir (BBC Audio) (BBC Audiobooks Ltd)

Authors

Spike Milligan
Eric Sykes

Publication date: 2006-11-06
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £4.69

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Review BBC Audiobooks Ltd / The Goon Show Classics: You Have Deaded Me Again (Previously Volume 8) (BBC Radio Collection)

The Goon Show Classics: You Have Deaded Me Again (Previously Volume 8) (BBC Radio Collection) (BBC Audiobooks Ltd)

Authors

Eric Sykes
Spike Milligan

Creator: Harry Secombe
Publication date: 1997-03-03
Dewey code: 817
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £7.48

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Review BBC Audiobooks Ltd / The Lady in the Van (BBC Radio Collection)

The Lady in the Van (BBC Radio Collection) (BBC Audiobooks Ltd)

Authors

Alan Bennett

Publication date: 2001-08-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £7.28

Review The Lady in the Van (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:

Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a van in Alan Bennett's driveway from the early1970s until her death in 1989. It is doubtful that Bennett could have made up the eccentric Miss Shepherd if he tried, but his poignant, funny but unsentimental account of their strange relationship is akin to his best fictional screen writing. Bennett concedes that "One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation", but as the plastic bags build up, the years pass by and Miss Shepherd moves into Bennett's driveway, a relationship is established which defines a certain moment in late 20th-century London life which has probably gone forever. The dissenting, liberal, middle-class world of Bennett and his peers comes into hilarious but also telling collision with the world of Miss Shepherd: "there was a gap between our social position and our social obligations. It was in this gap that Miss Shepherd (in her van) was able to live". Bennett recounts Miss Shepherd's bizarre escapades in his inimitable style, from her letter to the Argentinean Embassy at the height of the Falklands War, to her attempts to stand for Parliament and wangle an electric wheelchair out of the Social Services. Beautifully observed, The Lady in the Van is as notable for Bennett's attempts to uncover the enigmatic history of Miss Shepherd, as it is for its amusing account of her eccentric escapades. -Jerry Brotton.

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