The Nation’s Favourite - Various torrent

Category: Other
Language: English
Keywords: nation's favourite
Written by Various
Read by Various

Linked to the BBC radio programme “Bookworm”, this is a collection of more than 80 comic poems ranging from traditional ballads to authors such as Hilaire Belloc, Edward Lear, Dorothy Parker, Spike Milligan, Victoria Wood and Benjamin Zephaniah :-

1. Introduction by Griff Rhys Jones
2. Edward Lear – The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
3. Brian Patten - Hair Today, No Her Tomorrow - Read by Adjoa Andoh and James Saxon
4. Anon – The Pig - Read by James Saxon
5. Christopher Isherwood – The Common Cormorant - Read by Adjoa Andoh
6. Michael Flanders – The Hippopotamus Song - Read by James Saxon
7. Gary Boswell - Ducks Don’t Shop in Sainsburys - Read by Adjoa Andoh
8. Clive James – The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered - Read by Christian Rodska
9. Roald Dahl – St Ives - Read by James Saxon
10. Roald Dahl – Hot and Cold - Read by Adjoa Andoh
11. Captain Hamish Blair – The Bloody Orkneys - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
12. Lewis Carroll – Father William - Read by James Saxon and Christian Rodska
13. Jenny Joseph – Warning - Read by Adjoa Andoh
14. Spike Milligan – On the Ning Nang Nong - Read by Christian Rodska
15. Spike Milligan – Father Thames - Read by James Saxon
16. Spike Milligan – Bump! - Read by Christian Rodska
17. Pam Ayres – Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother - Read by Adjoa Andoh
18. Allan Ahlberg – Please Mrs Butler - Read by James Saxon and Adjoa Andoh
19. Thomas Sheridan – A True and Faithful Inventory of the Goods Belonging to Dr. Swift, Vicar of Lara Cor: upon lending his house to The Bishop of Meath, until his own was built - Read by James Saxon
20. Sir John Betjeman – A Subaltern’s Love Song - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
21. Patrick Barrington – I Had a Duck-billed Platypus - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
22. Anon – On a Tired Housewife - Read by Adjoa Andoh
23. Edgar Bateman – It’s a Great Big Shame - Read by Christian Rodska
24. E.C. Bentley – Clerihews - Read by James Saxon and Adjoa Andoh
25. John Donne – Song - Read by James Saxon
26. Hilaire Belloc – Matilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death - Read by Adjoa Andoh
27. John Keats – All These Are Vile - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
28. Ernest Lawrence Thayer – Casey at the Bat - Read by Christian Rodska
29. Edward Lear – Limericks - Read by Christian Rodska, Adjoa Andoh and James Saxon
30. Lewis Carroll – The Walrus and the Carpenter - Read by Christian Rodska and James Saxon
31. Ogden Nash – Song of the Open Road - Read by Christian Rodska
32. Roald Dahl – Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf - Read by James Saxon and Adjoa Andoh
33. Thomas Moore – On Taking a Wife - Read by Christian Rodska
34. W.H. Auden – Give Me a Doctor - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
35. Tom Brown – Doctor Fell - Read by Adjoa Andoh
36. Louis MacNeice – Bagpipe Music - Read by Christian Rodska
37. Hilaire Belloc – Henry King Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut Off in Dreadful Agonies - Read by James Saxon
38. Joyce Grenfell – Stately as a Galleon - Read by Adjoa Andoh
39. Sir Max Beerbohm – from Old Surrey Saws and Sayings (A red sky at night) - Read by Christian Rodska
40. A.E. Houseman – The Shades of Night - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
41. Marriott Edgar – The Lion and Albert - Read by James Saxon
42. Roger McGough – Cake - Read by Christian Rodska
43. Roger McGough – Stink - Read by James Saxon
44. Roger McGough – Survivor - Read by Christian Rodska
45. Edward Lear – The Pobble Who Has No Toes - Read by Adjoa Andoh
46. Sir Walter Raleigh – Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
47. Anon - I Have a Gentle Cock - Read by James Saxon
48. Pam Ayres – Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth - Read by Adjoa Andoh
49. Ogden Nash – Curl Up and Diet - Read by Christian Rodska
50. Hilaire Belloc – Lord Finchley - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
51. John Agard – Coffee in Heaven - Read by Adjoa Andoh
52. E.E. Cummings – May I feel said he - Read by James Saxon and Adjoa Andoh
53. Sir John Betjeman – Hunter Trials - Read by Adjoa Andoh
54. Harry Graham - L’Enfant Glace - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
55. Anon – Peas - Read by James Saxon
56. Paul Duncan – Tullynoe: Tete-a-Tete in the Parish Priest’s Parlour - Read by James Saxon and Adjoa Andoh
57. Gavin Ewart – The Black Box - Read by Christian Rodska
58. Humbert Wolfe – You cannot hope - Read by James Saxon
59. Charlotte Mitchell – Just in Case - Read by Adjoa Andoh
60. William Shakespeare – A Sea Song (from The Tempest) - Read by Christian Rodska
61. Roald Dahl – A Hand in the Bird - Read by Adjoa Andoh
62. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – King Charles II - Read by James Saxon
63. Anon – The Crimes of Lizzie Borden - Read by Adjoa Andoh
64. Robert W. Service – The Cremation of Sam McGee - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
65. Stanley Holloway – Old Sam - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
66. Anon – On Mary Ann - Read by Adjoa Andoh
67. Anon – Spring in the Bronx - Read by Christian Rodska
68. E.J. Thribb – Lines on the Death of Chairman Mao - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
69. Sydney Smith – Recipe for a Salad - Read by Adjoa Andoh
70. X.J. Kennedy – To Someone Who Insisted That I Look up Someone - Read by Christian Rodska
71. W.S. Gilbert – The Nightmare - Read by James Saxon
72. Wendy Cope – Bloody Men - Read by Adjoa Andoh
73. John Hegley – Malcolm - Read by Christian Rodska
74. John Hegley – In the Arms of My Glasses - Read by James Saxon
75. John Hegley – A Comparison of Logs and Dogs - Read by Christian Rodska
76. Victoria Wood – Saturday Night - Read by Adjoa Andoh
77. Paul Dehn – Alternative Endings to an Unwritten Ballad - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
78. Alexander Pope – Epigram - Read by Christian Rodska
79. E.J. Thribb – In Memoriam Uffa Fox - Read by James Saxon
80. Lewis Carroll – Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy - Read by Adjoa Andoh
81. A.A. Milne – The King’s Breakfast - Read by James Saxon and Adjoa Andoh
82. Benjamin Zephaniah – Talking Turkeys!! - Read by Adjoa Andoh
83. W.H. Auden – Note on Intellectuals - Read by Griff Rhys Jones
84. Anon – She Was Poor but She Was Honest - Read by Adjoa Andoh
85. Harry Graham – Opportunity – Read by James Saxon
86. Dorothy Parker – One Perfect Rose - Read by Adjoa Andoh
87. Edward Lear – The Owl and the Pussy-cat - Read by James Saxon and Adjoa Andoh
88. Anon – If All the World Were Paper - Read by Christian Rodska
89. Hilaire Belloc – Rebecca Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably - Read by Adjoa Andoh
90. Lewis Carroll – Jabberwocky - Read by Griff Rhys Jones