Goon Show, The - Volume 9 - What Time Is It, Eccles?

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Under Two Floorboards
The Sinking of Westminster Pier
The Yehti
The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker

Goon but not forgotten. From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio.

GO ON - from a watery Westminster Pier to the far flung Foreign Legion, from Yehti ridden Yorkshire moors to a leather omnibus with a phantom conker-punch - the weird, wide and wonderful world of Goonery knows no bounds.

So savour another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics as Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe once more redefine the limits of radio comedy.

Here today - Goon tomorrow.

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Author: Various
Narrator: Full Cast Performance
ISBN: 0563389729
Download Price: $18.99 Get it now

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Community connections - Detroit Free Press

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Community connections - Detroit Free Press
The Council of Homeowners Associations and the League of Women Voters will host a candidate forum in Farmington Hills on Wednesday. The forum will run 7-8:30 p.m. at Farmington Hills City Hall, 31555 W. Eleven Mile Road. Candidates running for a seat
Source: www.freep.com

MPs call for coastal path rethink - BBC News
But MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee say it includes few formal safeguards to protect affected landowners and occupiers. A Defra spokesman said that it would “carefully” consider the views expressed by the committee. The draft
Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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Tags: Bbc, Candidate Forum, City Hall, Coastal Path, Community Connections, Detroit Free Press, Environment Food, Farmington Hills, Homeowners Associations, Landowners, League Of Women Voters, Rural Affairs Committee, Safeguards, Spokesman Said That

Bob the Builder: Bob’s Big Plan & Other Stories

Monday, July 21st, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Bob the Builder: Bob’s Big Plan & Other Stories
The first six episodes from the hugely popular TV series, plus extended episode ‘Bob’s Big Plan’

You’ll love these great new stories about Bob the Builder and his friends!

In Bob’s Big Plan, a special extended episode, Bob hears that Sunflower Valley, where he and his brother Tom used to camp, is being developed. Bobsville architect Mr Adams wants to build nightclubs, skyscrapers and restaurants, but Bob’s plan for an eco-town wins the day.

Bob arrives in the valley to begin his dream town in Bob’s Big Start. All the machines are a little bit nervous about the big job ahead, especially Muck, but he doesn’t want to show it. In Lofty’s Shelter the machines get to build their brand new shelter. Lofty decides he’d like a place there - but he doesn’t know how to tell Bob. Wendy and Scrambler visit in Dizzy and the Talkie Talkie, Wendy’s brought a surprise for the team: Talkie-Talkies, a radio headset system to help them all!

In Scoop’s Recruit Scoop needs to find a new builder to take over the old yard so that Wendy can stay in Sunflower Valley. Bob’s Dad Robert turns out to be perfect for the job, but in Where’s Robert? he keeps getting sidetracked while Bob is trying to get things done. Then Robert goes missing! Wendy finally arrives in Wendy’s Welcome and finds that Robert and the machines have prepared some great surprises for her!

Take a trip to Sunflower Valley, and join in the fun!
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Author: Keith Chapman
Narrator: Full Cast Production
ISBN: 1405628545
Download Price: $13.99

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Alistair Cooke at the BBC

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Alistair Cooke at the BBC

‘Such experience, wisdom and education are unlikely ever again to combine in one journalist’ — Mark Lawson

Alistair Cooke looks back on a rich and varied life, one which has taken him across the ocean but never far away from the BBC.

Drawing on archive recordings, this selection includes interviews from radio and television, Cooke’s Letter from America, and a speech made to the Royal Television Society at New York’s Cosmopolitan Club.

It charts the journalist’s career from his first trip to America as a young Cambridge graduate to the establishment of the enormously successful Letter From America, originally scheduled for thirteen weeks but still running today.

Alistair Cooke’s biographer, Nick Clarke, introduces this in-depth retrospective which examines the heroes, hobbies and experiences of one of the greatest names in broadcasting.

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Author: Nick Clarke
Narrator: Various
ISBN: 0563494050
Download Price: $18.99

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Hancock’s Happy Christmas

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Celebrate Christmas at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam with the lad himself. Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, in these four episodes filled with his own unique brand of seasonal cheer.

Hancock’s Happy Christmas
‘Christmas is going to be just like any other day in this house - dead miserable! Can Sid make Hancock change his mind?

The Christmas Club
After last year’s measly dinner, Hancock decides to be well prepared and save some money with the Christmas club. You just know it’s going to be disastrous!

Bill and Father Christmas
Bill still believes in Father Christmas! Finding out the truth sends him into shock - time for a little regression therapy…

The Diary
Another New Year prompts Hancock to review his giant lock-up diary in which he records all memorable events. But Bill has a different opinion about such entries as ‘This morning I had an egg for breakfast’ and ‘It’s raining’.

Written By
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson

First Broadcast
The Light Programme
2 November 1954

Number of Series
Six:
November 1954 - February 1955
April - July 1955
September 1955 - February 1956
October 1956 - February 1957
January - June 1958
September - December 1959

Last Broadcast
29 December 1959

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Author: Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Narrator: Full Cast Production
ISBN: 056353513X
Download Price: $18.99 Find out more…

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