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George Carlin Reads to You
- An Audio Collection Including Grammy Winners 'Braindroppings' and 'Napalm & Silly Putty'
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
If one George Carlin audio is funny, then two are funnier and three must be funniest, right? That's our thinking behind this new collection....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I miss George!
- By Jessica Timmins on 2019-03-21
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Blackadder Goes Forth
- Written by: Richard Curtis, Ben Elton
- Narrated by: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Original Recording
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Six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Tony Robinson....
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Napalm & Silly Putty
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Yes, George Carlin is here with more of what he did better than any other comic: uproarious observations, laser-targeted crankiness, linguistic legerdemain, and inspired weirdness....
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- Written by: Fran Lebowitz
- Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
In "elegant, finely honed prose" ( The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life....
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 2
- The Germans
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
- Written by: James Acaster
- Narrated by: James Acaster
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious!
- By Adam Drew on 2019-02-04
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George Carlin Reads to You
- An Audio Collection Including Grammy Winners 'Braindroppings' and 'Napalm & Silly Putty'
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
If one George Carlin audio is funny, then two are funnier and three must be funniest, right? That's our thinking behind this new collection....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I miss George!
- By Jessica Timmins on 2019-03-21
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Blackadder Goes Forth
- Written by: Richard Curtis, Ben Elton
- Narrated by: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Original Recording
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Six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Tony Robinson....
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Napalm & Silly Putty
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Yes, George Carlin is here with more of what he did better than any other comic: uproarious observations, laser-targeted crankiness, linguistic legerdemain, and inspired weirdness....
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- Written by: Fran Lebowitz
- Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
In "elegant, finely honed prose" ( The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life....
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 2
- The Germans
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
- Written by: James Acaster
- Narrated by: James Acaster
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious!
- By Adam Drew on 2019-02-04
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Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection
- Written by: Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
- Narrated by: Paul Eddington, full cast, Nigel Hawthorn
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17
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For the first time in one audio collection, all sixteen Yes Minister radio episodes plus six further TV episodes....
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 1
- Basil the Rat
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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Rare Daws Butler
- Comedy from the Voice of Yogi Bear!
- Written by: Mr. Daws Butler
- Narrated by: Mr. Daws Butler, Stan Freberg, Shep Menken, and others
- Length: 48 mins
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Daws Butler was the voice magician behind such classic cartoon characters as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and Quick Draw McGraw....
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What Makes Sammy Run?
- Written by: Budd Schulberg
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The classic book that shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. As Budd Shulberg follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character....
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Brain Droppings
- Written by: George Carlin
- Narrated by: George Carlin
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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The thinking person's comic who uses words as weapons, George Carlin shares all-new, cutting-edge opinion and observational humor in this best seller...
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It's Me Again
- The Bandy Papers
- Written by: Donald Jack
- Narrated by: Robin Gabrielli
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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As usual, the RAF top brass don't know what to do with maverick flying ace and well-known loose cannon Major Bartholomew Bandy. They pack him off to a squadron where everything's as smart as paint and the flying record barely registers, thinking it'll keep him out of their hair....
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- Written by: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Mark Twain discusses the telling of stories, rather than providing more stories....
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Just a Minute 5
- Written by: BBC Worldwide Limited
- Narrated by: Nicholas Parsons
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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Another hilarious selection of mirth-filled minutes from BBC Radio 4's popular long-running panel game....
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Just a Minute 7
- Written by: BBC Worldwide
- Narrated by: Nicholas Parsons
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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This selection of four more editions of Just a Minute includes the Sony award-winning programme from 2002, plus three from the first series of 2003....
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Just a Minute 8
- Written by: BBC Worldwide
- Narrated by: Nicholas Parsons
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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In this selection of four more editions of Just a Minute, Nicholas Parsons once again attempts to keep control over the proceedings....
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Round the Horne
- Volume 1
- Written by: Kenneth Horne, more
- Narrated by: Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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As one of the most consistently funny radio series of the 1960s, Round The Horne was always a favourite among listeners to the BBC Light Programme's comedy hour on Sundays....
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The Comedians
- Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
- Written by: Kliph Nesteroff
- Narrated by: Kliph Nesteroff
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts....
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4 out of 5 stars
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History of comedians
- By Ron on 2019-04-17
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Old-Time Radio's Greatest Stars: Lucille Ball Collection 1
- Written by: Black Eye Entertainment
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Original Recording
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Lucille Ball was an accomplished actress, comedian, model, entertainment studio executive and producer. This collection contains 10 of her popular radio performances, and we hope you will Love Lucy all over again....
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Abbott & Costello
- Masters of Comedy
- Written by: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection presents the flat-out funny misunderstandings and wacky word play you expect from Bud and Lou....
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Jack Benny: Neighbors
- Written by: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Ronald Colman, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Ronald and Benita Colman made 20 guest appearances on The Jack Benny Program, including some of the most hilarious entries in the series. The Colmans' refined personaes played an excellent "grand opera" to the "ragtime" of Jack's mercenary enterprises....
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- Written by: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Matt Montanez
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895....
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Fawlty Towers, Volume 3
- The Psychiatrist
- Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth
- Narrated by: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese....
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Tristram Shandy
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Written by: Laurence Sterne
- Narrated by: full cast, Julia Ford, Paul Ritter, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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A full-cast dramatisation of this comic tale about an 18th-century gentleman who tries to tell his life story but continually finds that he must digress....
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An Ideal Husband
- Written by: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Michael Ward
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of 24 hours....
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The Man Upstairs [Classic Tales Edition]
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
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P. G. Wodehouse gives us a delightful romantic comedy of two struggling artists who fantastically misunderstand each other....
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Something Fresh
- Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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The one thing that could be expected to disturb the peace of life at Blandings is the incursion of imposters....
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Written by: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle
- Length: 53 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Perhaps the ultimate in TV madness and absurdity, this is innovative and ground-breaking comedy....
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The Comic Genius of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Volume 1
- Written by: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
- Narrated by: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were two of the brightest stars ever to light up the world of comedy....
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Hancock
- A Celebration: The Very Best of Hancock's Half Hour
- Written by: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
- Narrated by: Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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Ray Galton and Alan Simpson present, with personal recollections, a comic feast of Hancock's Half Hour....
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I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
- Written by: Lewis Black
- Narrated by: Lewis Black
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic New York Times best-selling author comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas....
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The Goon Show Compendium: Volume 11 (Series 9, Pt 2 & Series 10)
- Twenty episodes of the classic BBC radio comedy series
- Written by: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Twenty remastered episodes of the legendary series plus bonus material. Popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking radio series changed the face of British comedy....
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The Goon Show, Volume 1
- Moriarity, Where Are You?
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Here's a crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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Who's on First?
- Written by: William "Bud" Abbott, Lou Costello, K. Anderson Yancy
- Narrated by: Heather Wood, K. Anderson Yancy
- Length: 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A woman finds it difficult to make her husband understand that the answer to his question, "Who's on first?" is Who....
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The Goon Show, Volume 3
- I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas
- Written by: The Goons
- Narrated by: The Goons
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Here's another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe....
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Mapp and Lucia
- Written by: E. F. Benson
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Abridged
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Mapp and Lucia is the centrepiece of E.F. Benson's series of Lucia novels - bringing together for the first time the eponymous middle-aged doyennes of polite 1930s society....