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1000 Years of Laughter by David Timson




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Laughter is unique to man. This delightful anthology presents some of the funniest extracts in English literature. David Timson starts with Anglo-Saxon riddles and continues with medieval memories, Tudor comic turns and Restoration buffoonery. The rise of the novel in the eighteenth century brought classic humour from Swift, Sterne and Smollet, passing the mantle to Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century. Included here are rarities as well, from the antiquarian's cupboard. There are also excerpts from children's literature and twentieth-century classics as diverse as Dorothy Parker and P.G. Wodehouse. An entertainment from start to finish.

Disc 1


    1000 Years of Laughter (more info)
    Composed by: David Timson
    Griff Rhys Jones, narrator
    Jonathan Keeble,
    Carole Boyd, reader
    John Moffatt, reader
    David Timson,
    Cathy Sara, reader
    Produced by: Soames, Nicolas

  1. Laughter - Robert Burton - 02:37
  2. Anglo-Saxon Riddles - 02:35
  3. The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambriensis - 01:13
  4. 14th century advice from Johannes de Mirfeld - 01:33
  5. An Alphabet of Tales - 01:20
  6. Demanundes Joyous - 01:07
  7. The Gull's Horn-book - 03:55
  8. Wits, Fits and Fancies - 00:49
  9. Eight kinds of Drunkenness from Pierce Penniless His Supplication To The Devil - 02:24
  10. Launce and his Dog - 02:38
  11. The Anatomy Of Melancholy - 04:42
  12. Jokes from 17th centruy jest book - 02:29
  13. The great age of clubs - 02:39
  14. The Club of Little Men - 02:22
  15. The Club Of She-Romps - 02:06
  16. The Club Of Ugly Faces - 01:32
  17. The Island of Laputa - 07:06
  18. Peregrine Pickle - 09:47
  19. Tristram Shandy - 06:23
  20. Tristram Shandy - 08:25
  21. Tristram Shandy - 01:41
  22. Fanny Burney's Diary 1785 - 03:09
  23. Fanny Burney's Diary 1785 - 06:10

Disc 2


    1000 Years of Laughter (more info)
    Composed by: David Timson
    Griff Rhys Jones, narrator
    Jonathan Keeble,
    Carole Boyd, reader
    John Moffatt, reader
    David Timson,
    Cathy Sara, reader
    Produced by: Soames, Nicolas

  1. Emma - 05:01
  2. That We Should Rise with the Lark - 04:35
  3. Lamb's Letter to H.F. Carey - 04:35
  4. Sayings of Sydney Smith - 02:49
  5. Mrs. Caudles Curtain Lectures - 08:09
  6. Victorian Humour: Oscar Wilde to Punch - 01:57
  7. De Omnibus - 08:10
  8. At Rochester - 06:31
  9. The Pickwick Papers - 05:18
  10. The Old Curiosity Shop - 08:37
  11. To Agnes Hull - 03:46
  12. The Mad Hatter's Tea Party - 08:24
  13. The Wind in the Willows - 05:35
  14. The Wind in the Willows - 03:27

Disc 3


    1000 Years of Laughter (more info)
    Composed by: David Timson
    Griff Rhys Jones, narrator
    Jonathan Keeble,
    Carole Boyd, reader
    John Moffatt, reader
    David Timson,
    Cathy Sara, reader
    Produced by: Soames, Nicolas

  1. The Diary Of A Nobody - 07:51
  2. Happy Thoughts - 09:40
  3. Two on a Tower - 09:40
  4. Mr Polly - 05:35
  5. Mr Polly - 07:44
  6. Three Men in a Boat - 07:18
  7. Three Men in a Boat - 05:05
  8. Rip Van Winkle - 07:23
  9. Josh Billings, His Sayings - 00:57
  10. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - 04:07
  11. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - 03:50

Disc 4


    1000 Years of Laughter (more info)
    Composed by: David Timson
    Griff Rhys Jones, narrator
    Jonathan Keeble,
    Carole Boyd, reader
    John Moffatt, reader
    David Timson,
    Cathy Sara, reader
    Produced by: Soames, Nicolas

  1. The one-liner - 01:45
  2. The Waltz - 10:36
  3. The Young visiters - 10:29
  4. Reginald On House-Parties - 06:10
  5. Right Ho Jeeves - 09:45
  6. Right Ho Jeeves - 10:02
  7. Jeeves Takes Charge - 05:55
  8. The Remarkable Rocket - 02:40
  9. The Squib, the Roman Candle, the Catherine Wheel - 01:39
  10. The Rocket - 04:13
  11. The Rocket - 'What right have you to be happy?' - 04:13
  12. The dance - and the firework display - 03:06
  13. A little frog, with bright jewelled eyes - 03:01
  14. A large white duck - 03:29
  15. So they piled up the wood and put Rocket on top, and lit the fire - 02:02

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Product Details
 
Composer(s)/ Author(s):
Timson, David

Artist(s):
Boyd, Carole; Jones, Griff Rhys; Keeble, Jonathan; Moffatt, John; Sara, Cathy; Timson, David

Label: Naxos Audio Books
UPC: 9789626342695
Item Number: NA426912
Release Date: Aug 12, 2002

 
 
 
 
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