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Tales From A Long Room (BBC Radio Collection) |  | Author: Peter Tinniswood
Creator: Robin Bailey
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book
Buy Used: £34.95
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Seller: unclejohnsband
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 624448
Format: Audiobook, Box set
Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 150 Minutes
ISBN: 0563225815
EAN: 9780563225812
ASIN: 0563225815
Publication Date: September 12, 1988
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Ten tales told by Robin Bailey as The Brigadier.
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Out of print but a delight February 20, 2010
R. Kyle
Brilliant value. Wanted to share the hilarity of Tinniswood's creation with my son. Had lost my copy and the local library could not help.Thank you.
Wonderful entertainment December 15, 2009
A. Fitzpatrick (London UK)
Some of the best writing since Wodehouse. Tinniswood's gift for portraying the fading Empire's last throes is unparalleled.
Sit back and discover why good comedy does not rely on profanity. The English langauge is rich enough to provide prose for all occasions, especially in the misty-eyes of the Brigadier, whom Robin Bailey could have been born to play.
In short, a masterpiece !
Tall tales indeed! September 2, 2009
M. Shuttleworth (Bolton UK)
What a fantastic book! Read this through in one sitting and re-read it again a week later when my ribs had stopped aching! For those who are familiar with Peter Tinniswood you may have already read this but if not it is the man as his acidic, un-PC, and elaborate tall tale telling best. Wonderfully offensive but genuinely warm and nostalgic. 'Tales from a Long Room' recounts various cricketing adventures and episodes in the Brigadiers colourful past: tales of the MCC trip to the belgian Congo, the promising early batting career; cut short by more pressing duties, of the late queen Victoria, and the legendary Mendip-Hughes the one legged off spinner are hilarious but the real treasure lies in the beautiful imagery brought to mind of an England long past, of tea and scones, sunday cricket, summer meadows and 'the clink of hipflask and the heady scent of fine malt whiskey'.
An English treasure and one to be savoured, this is a very funny book - provided you're not one of a delicate nature! If you like 70's and 80's English sitcoms this is right up your street - trust me, brilliant.
A Cricketing and Humorous Masterpiece August 4, 2007
Wowbagger the Infinite (Somerset, UK)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Peter Tinniswood's creation, The Brigadier, is at his finest here, in his original outing. Dotty, bombastic, eccentric, a bit rude - the Brigadier is all of these and so much more. The book follows the Brigadier recounting his past memories of "the summer game", and frequently mistaking well known cricketers for other famous people. Comments such as "Majid Khan, son of Sammy" will either paralyse you with laughter, or leave you stone cold. I am firmly in the first camp and definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves cricket and who loves a really silly off the wall laugh. Most of the other Peter Tinniswood "Brigadier" books ("More Tales from the Long Room", "Tales of Witney Scrotum", "Brigadier's Brief Lives" etc.) are all good in places, but none of them can hold a candle to this opener.
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