Have I Got News For You

Sunday, July 13th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Have I Got News For You
Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton star in recent highlights from the show that makes the headlines.

Who said yesterday’s news was only good for wrapping your chips in? Ever since 1990, BBC TV’s media-savvy comedy quiz “Have I Got News for You” has been proving that even the most sober headlines can provide some of the funniest and near-the-knuckle banter ever heard on air.

This collection of the most hilarious moments from the programme find team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton joined by a long procession of guest panellists including Jennie Bond, Sara Cox, Christine Hamilton, Boris Johnson, Ross Noble, Carol Thatcher, Germaine Greer, Glenda Jackson, Lorraine Kelly, Will Self, Linda Smith, Mark Steel, Janet Street Porter, Ruby Wax and Francis Wheen.

In addition to highlights from the last two series to feature Angus Deayton as chairman, there’s also a collection of funniest moments from the 2002 and 2003 series, in which the guest presenters include Alexander Armstrong, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Bruce Forsyth, William Hague MP, Charles Kennedy MP, Anne Robinson and John Sergeant.
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Author: Panel Show
Narrator: Panel Show
ISBN: 1405628618
Download Price: $18.99

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India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

Friday, May 16th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Exotic and diverse, richly colourful and intriguingly complex – India is one of the most exciting countries to visit in the world today. Sanjeev Bhaskar of ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ and ‘The Kumars at No. 42′ , grew up in 70s surburban west London, so his regular family visits to India to see his relatives gave him an endless fascination for its bizarre contradictions. Now Sanjeev is going back with a BBC film crew to delve deeper into what makes this country such a compelling phenomenon.

As Sanjeev travels from Delhi to Bombay, Jaipur to Calcutta, he meets ordinary and extraordinary Indian people from every background, and brings his natural warmth and sense of humour to these encounters. Although often baffled by the eccentricities of India, our endearingly good-natured guide never fails to find humour in these situations.

‘Sanjeev’s India’ is also a personal journey as Sanjeev meets old relatives who reveal their moving and often traumatic stories of India’s turbulent and bloody past, and comes to understand a little more about his own roots.

During his trip Sanjeev is invited to a middle-class wedding in Delhi as well as witnessing the poverty of the slums in the Calcutta backstreets. He wryly observes the polo-playing Maharajah jet-set in Jaipur as well as the kitsch of Bombay Bollywood, and experiences the Ganges lit up by a million floating candles for the ancient ritual of Diwali and the majestic colonial architecture of the British Raj.

With such an engaging and thoughtful travelling companion, we find ourselves going beyond the clichés to reveal a country steeped in history yet at the forefront of new technology, at once confusing, astonishing and jaw-droppingly beautiful.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Author: Sanjeev Bhaskar
Narrator: Sanjeev Bhaskar
ISBN: 0-00-726232-9
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