Three Stories by Mark Twain
Read by Stuart Milligan
Produced by Duncan Minshull
Broadcast Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 November 2010
160/44; 48 MB; sound quality excellent
A chance to hear three of the author's classic short stories, with their familiar trademarks of high farce and droll insight.
His tales bring us eccentric burglars, cossetted children, and a visitor to a theme park obsessed with the making of mocassins. And also torrents of water...
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