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Chambers

2309832442?profile=originalChambers is a comedy series set in perhaps the country's least spectacular law chambers. Starting on Radio 4, it moved on to BBC television a year later using many of the same scripts although not in the same order as the radio series (to make up the

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The Government Inspector

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The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Alistair Beaton

Gogol's landmark nineteenth century satire on corruption and sleaze. A penniless clerk is mistaken for a Government official by a corrupt town council. S

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Meet The Huggetts

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A comedy series with Jack Warner as Joe and Kathleen Harrison as Ethel.

It ran from 1953-61 and was a spin-off from the cinema's popular comedy drama of 1947, Holiday Camp, which had introduced the salt-of-the-earth Huggett Family.

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The School for Scandal

2309830953?profile=originalBy Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

The School for Scandal is one Sheridan’s most performed plays and a classic of English comedic drama. It was produced at Drury Lane Theater, London, May 8, 1777. Sheridan’s phrase “school for scandal” is a grand metaphor

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In the Red

2309831279?profile=originalComic thriller adapted from the book by Mark Tavener, BBC Radio Crime Correspondent George Cragge investigates a spree of bizarre murders involving bankers and pound coins.

Episode 1

1/7 Anarchic BBC reporter George Cragge hunts a murderer of bank ma

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In The Balance

2309830919?profile=originalSatirical political comedy series.

England is hosting the Football World Cup at the Wembley Stadium, a major summit of EU leaders and a general election is imminent. When a body is found in a ball bag it is the chance for disgraced old hack, George C

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It's A Fair Cop by Alfie Moore

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It's A Fair Cop
BBC Radio4
First broadcast 2014

Alfie Moore spent eighteen years on the Humberside police force before turning to stand up comedy. In this, his first series for Radio 4, he swears his audience in and takes them through a real life

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Right Ho, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse

Title: Right Ho, Jeeves Author: P G Wodehouse 2006 Genre: Dramatisation / Humour Publisher: BBC Series Name: Jeeves & Wooster File Information ================ Number of MP3s: 3 Total Duration: 3:17:55 Total MP3 Size: 90.61 Book Description =====

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P G Wodehouse - my collection

Here is a list of what I have. It will take a fair amount of time to download everything,  and as I will be away for a week, I have decided to list what I have to see whether there are any specific requests, which I will upload on my return.  As alwa

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J Kingston Platt - BBC

Series of comic monologues written from the perspective of an old showbiz survivor.

This is a very relaxed and humorous performance by Peter Jones [Hitch Hikers guide', Bunter in Lord Peter Wimsey series etc], who also wrote the series.

I don't have

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Are you being served

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Audio rips of all 10 series, just 2 or 3 missing episodes

Are You Being Served? is a British Sitcom that ran from 1972-1985. The show revolved around "Grace Brothers Department Store" and in particular the goings on within the "Gentlemen's Read

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