DescriptionHere are a further four original television soundtracks from the BBC's Hancock series. Once again Tony Hancock stars as the loveable curmudgeon, in four installments written by the character's creators, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The Economy…
DescriptionJoin real life husband and wife team Jim and Marian Jordan as they portray Fibber McGee and Molly in one of radio's longest running and most popular comedy series. Discover the hilarious antics of Fibber McGee, an incurable windbag as he pursues endless g…
DescriptionGerard Hoffnung was not only a gifted cartoonist but also a ground-breaking musician, best known for his wildly humorous concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, which featured such bizarre compositions as a concerto for three vacuum cleaners and an electric floor polisher. Here, in a selection of interviews and speeches, Hoffnung talks about his life of hilarity with all the gravity and seriousness he can muster. In the Charles Richardson interviews from Saturday Night on the Light, Hoffnung reveals many facets of his personal life, from his pet octopus to his hobby of hunting people who hunt. He also recounts the tale of his former housekeeper, a hedgehog, and a lavatory brush. He tells the famous bricklayer story in his Oxford Union speech and talks about his early life, his interest in film, and of course, his undying love of music. A must for all Hoffnung fans.
DescriptionThere's no one quite like Mark Twain for poking irreverent fun at everything - and he's at it again with this collection of essays, speeches, letters, and personal accounts. Twain begins, in "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, " by listing 18 of them and going on to debunk the Pathfinder's woodsmanship. "Punch-Brother-Punch" recounts how a memorable jingle nearly drives the author over the edge, and in "An Author's Soldiering, " we learn how Twain saved the Union. Also included are "The Art of Authorship, " "First Interview with Artemus Ward, " "To the California Pioneers, " "The Great Landslide Case, " "Political Economy, " "Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup, " and "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm."…
DescriptionFrom the annals of wartime Britain come four brilliantly funny episodes with Captain Mainwaring's fully trained Home Guard platoon, ever ready to strike terror into the heart of the Wehrmacht from their unit in Walmington-on-Sea. Always prepared to fight to the finish, this endearing team of characters are at their incompetent best in these wonderfully entertaining adventures specially adapted for radio. So...Prepare for an emergency exercise, a wedding guard of honour, an enemy infiltration and a mock battle.
DescriptionFrom the annals of wartime Britain come four brilliantly funny episodes with Captain Mainwaring's fully trained Home Guard platoon, ever ready to strike terror into the heart of the Wehrmacht from their unit in Walmington-on-Sea. Always prepared to fight to the finish, this endearing team of characters are at their incompetent best in these wonderfully entertaining adventures specially adapted for radio. So...Watch out for a suspected spy signalling to the enemy, some missing ammunition, the demotion of Captain Mainwaring, and a marooned platoon on Walmington Pier.
DescriptionFrom the annals of wartime Britain come four brilliantly funny episodes with Captain Mainwaring's fully trained Home Guard platoon, ever ready to strike terror into the heart of the Wehrmacht from their unit in Walmington-on-Sea. Always prepared to fight to the finish, this endearing team of characters are at their incompetent best in these wonderfully entertaining adventures specially adapted for radio. So...join the platoon in their grisly pursuit of a very important coffin, quake as they patrol the river in a dense fog under the dubious navigation of Captain Mainwaring, observe as they engage in an exercise to select an elite commando group, and enjoy a brief spell of relaxation when Sergeant Wilson takes charge in Mainwaring's absence.
DescriptionFrom the annals of wartime Britain come four brilliantly funny episodes with Captain Mainwaring's fully trained Home Guard platoon, ever ready to strike terror into the heart of the Wehrmacht from their unit in Walmington-on-Sea. Always prepared to fight to the finish, this endearing team of characters are at their incompetent best in these wonderfully entertaining adventures specially adapted for radio. So...find out why Captain Mainwaring feels betrayed by Wilson's promotion, enjoy the platoon's difficulty in tracking down eight pairs of ladies' knickers made from parachute silk, sympathise with Jones and an uneasy night spent in a ghostly house, and witness the arrival of a 13-pound gun with live ammunition, that no one knows how to operate.
DescriptionComedy is totally subjective. What makes one person roar with laughter can fail to elicit even the faintest of smiles from another. But the classics of comic verse have stood the test of time. Here are the favorites from Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Hood, Hillaire Belloc, W.S. Gilbert, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, John Keats, C.S. Calverley- all the way through to the masterly pen of our age, John Betjeman. And that is not to forget perhaps the greatest of them all: Anon. They wrote in couplets, triplets, in quatrains and trochaic dimeters. There are ballads, sonnets, proverbs, and nonsense verse. Poems to inform, divert, satirize, castigate and praise. And then there is the delightfully abused form, the limerick. A collection to make all listeners smile, laugh, remember and discover.
DescriptionOriginally published in 1865, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" began Mark Twain's remarkable career, and immediately demonstrated his masterful storytelling and brilliant sense of humor. This delightful tale introduces Jim Smiley, a man who loved to gamble, whether on horse races, dogfights, catfights, or even how long it took bugs to cross the Mexican border. When a gullible stranger came to town, Smiley boasted that his pet frog, Dan'l Webster, could outjump any frog in the county. Smiley, figuring it would be easy money, eagerly made a bet with the stranger, who had a secret plan to stop Dan'l in his tracks. This wickedly funny collection also includes several of Twain's other great short stories, including "A True Story, " "Extracts from Adam's Diary, " and "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed."…
