Publication date: 2003-06-02
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £9.00
Price: £6.11
Review Dr. Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisations (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 1994-10-03
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £5.00
Price: £2.89
Review Knowing Me, Knowing You...: With Alan Partridge: No.2 (Canned Laughter) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Harry Secombe
Publication date: 1997-02-03
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.59
Review The Goon Show Classics: Ying Tong Iddle-i-po! (Previously Volume 7) (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Graham Stark
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.57
Review The Goon Show Classics: Goon Show and Guests Vol 16 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-04-07
RRP: £9.00
Price: £6.87
Review Alistair Cooke at the BBC (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Authors
- Spike Milligan
- Maurice Wiltshire
- Larry Stephens
Publication date: 1996-06-03
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.14
Review The Goon Show Classics: Have a Gorilla (Previously Volume 6) (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-09-03
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.32
Review Revolting People: Series 1 (BBC Audio) / Andy Hamilton:
Publication date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.88
Review "Round the Horne": The Very Best Episodes: v. 3 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2003-05-05
RRP: £7.00
Price: £4.71
Review Three Radio Mysteries: v.3: Three BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisations Vol 3 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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.
Publication date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £7.00
Price: £3.49
Review "Doctor Who" at the BBC, the Plays (BBC Audio) / Daragh Carville/Martyn Wade/Sharpe:
Creator: Spike Milligan
Publication date: 2002-09-02
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.30
Review The Goon Show Classics: Fear of Wages/The Nadger Plague/The Great British Revolution/The Sahara Desert Salute Vol 20 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-04-07
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.96
Review Just a Minute: Anniversary Special (BBC Radio Collection) / Just a Minute:
Publication date: 2003-08-01
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.97
Review An Evening with Blowers / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-06-02
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £79.99
Price: £47.99
Review "Dad's Army": Collector's Editon Series 1 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-03-04
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £79.99
Price: £56.68
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.
Publication date: 2004-04-05
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £69.99
Price: £37.98
Review "Round the Horne": Series 4 (Radio Collection) / Round the Horne:
Publication date: 2003-10-06
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.45
Review Rumpole and the Primrose Path (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-05-05
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.10
Review The Skull Beneath the Skin: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Harry Secombe
Publication date: 1995-10-02
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £7.00
Price: £4.32
Review The Goon Show Classics: Shut Up Eccles! (Previously Volume 12) (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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Dr. Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisations (Radio Collection), Knowing Me, Knowing You...: With Alan Partridge: No.2 (Canned Laughter), The Goon Show Classics: Ying Tong Iddle-i-po! (Previously Volume 7) (BBC Radio Collection), The Goon Show Classics: Goon Show and Guests Vol 16 (BBC Radio Collection), Alistair Cooke at the BBC (BBC Radio Collection), The Goon Show Classics: Have a Gorilla (Previously Volume 6) (BBC Radio Collection), Revolting People: Series 1 (BBC Audio), "Round the Horne": The Very Best Episodes: v. 3 (BBC Radio Collection), Three Radio Mysteries: v.3: Three BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisations Vol 3 (BBC Radio Collection), The Lady in the Van (BBC Radio Collection), "Doctor Who" at the BBC, the Plays (BBC Audio), The Goon Show Classics: Fear of Wages/The Nadger Plague/The Great British Revolution/The Sahara Desert Salute Vol 20 (BBC Radio Collection), Just a Minute: Anniversary Special (BBC Radio Collection), An Evening with Blowers, "Dad's Army": Collector's Editon Series 1 (BBC Radio Collection), Hancock's Half Hour: Collectors Edition (Series Four: October 1956 - February 1957), "Round the Horne": Series 4 (Radio Collection), Rumpole and the Primrose Path (BBC Radio Collection), The Skull Beneath the Skin: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection), The Goon Show Classics: Shut Up Eccles! (Previously Volume 12) (BBC Radio Collection) |
