The Nation’s Favourite - Various
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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
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| 64 The Cremation of Sam McGee.mp3 3.78 MBs | |
| 02 The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.mp3 2.36 MBs | |
| 30 The Walrus and the Carpenter.mp3 2.09 MBs | |
| 28 Casey at the Bat.mp3 1.82 MBs | |
| 20 A Subalterns Love Song.mp3 1.78 MBs | |
| 71 The Nightmare.mp3 1.72 MBs | |
| 41 The Lion and Albert.mp3 1.61 MBs | |
| 01 Introduction.mp3 1.61 MBs | |
| 65 Old Sam.mp3 1.59 MBs | |
| 21 I Had a Duck-billed Platypus.mp3 1.55 MBs | |
| 08 The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered.mp3 1.51 MBs | |
| 76 Saturday Night.mp3 1.45 MBs | |
| 32 Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.mp3 1.22 MBs | |
| 59 Just in Case.mp3 1.15 MBs | |
| 06 The Hippopotamus Song.mp3 1.11 MBs | |
| 38 Stately as a Galleon.mp3 1.08 MBs | |
| 45 The Pobble Who Has No Toes.mp3 1.07 MBs | |
| 49 Curl Up and Diet.mp3 1.06 MBs | |
| 77 Alternative Endings to an Unwritten Ballad.mp3 1.05 MBs | |
| 26 Matilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death.mp3 1.03 MBs | |
| 36 Bagpipe Music.mp3 1.03 MBs | |
| 17 Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire Mother.mp3 1.01 MBs | |
| 90 Jabberwocky.mp3 1014.97 KBs | |
| 03 Hair Today No Her Tomorrow.mp3 991.1 KBs | |
| 81 The Kings Breakfast.mp3 975.59 KBs | |
| 23 Its a Great Big Shame.mp3 957.84 KBs | |
| 12 Father William.mp3 910.08 KBs | |
| 84 She Was Poor but She Was Honest.mp3 896 KBs | |
| 82 Talking Turkeys.mp3 890.69 KBs | |
| 48 Oh I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth.mp3 847.43 KBs | |
| 87 The Owl and the Pussy-cat.mp3 810.28 KBs | |
| 56 Tullynoe.mp3 780.69 KBs | |
| 19 A True and Faithful Inventory of the Goods Belonging to Dr Swift.mp3 756 KBs | |
| 40 The Shades of Night.mp3 728.24 KBs | |
| 53 Hunter Trials.mp3 711.92 KBs | |
| 13 Warning.mp3 669.88 KBs | |
| 29 Limericks.mp3 663.14 KBs | |
| 89 Rebecca Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably.mp3 663.14 KBs | |
| 11 The Bloody Orkneys.mp3 655.8 KBs | |
| 24 Clerihews.mp3 647.43 KBs | |
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| 88 If All the World Were Paper.mp3 610.9 KBs | |
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| 47 I Have a Gentle Cock.mp3 494.57 KBs | |
| 18 Please Mrs Butler.mp3 478.65 KBs | |
| 61 A Hand in the Bird.mp3 462.94 KBs | |
| 68 Lines on the Death of Chairman Mao.mp3 452.12 KBs | |
| 79 In Memoriam Uffa Fox.mp3 432.94 KBs | |
| 86 One Perfect Rose.mp3 428.65 KBs | |
| 43 Stink.mp3 405.18 KBs | |
| 04 The Pig.mp3 397.43 KBs | |
| 07 Ducks Dont Shop in Sainsburys.mp3 379.26 KBs | |
| 22 On a Tired Housewife.mp3 349.06 KBs | |
| 80 Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy.mp3 336 KBs | |
| 72 Bloody Men.mp3 328.65 KBs | |
| 14 On the Ning Nang Nong.mp3 311.31 KBs | |
| 60 A Sea Song from The Tempest.mp3 304.36 KBs | |
| 51 Coffee in Heaven.mp3 298.24 KBs | |
| 05 The Common Cormorant.mp3 292.12 KBs | |
| 57 The Black Box.mp3 288.04 KBs | |
| 34 Give Me a Doctor.mp3 260.69 KBs | |
| 54 LEnfant Glace.mp3 253.75 KBs | |
| 46 Wishes of an Elderly Man.mp3 250.49 KBs | |
| 10 Hot and Cold.mp3 246 KBs | |
| 33 On Taking a Wife.mp3 217.84 KBs | |
| 85 Opportunity.mp3 217.02 KBs | |
| 39 from Old Surrey Saws and Sayings A red sky at night.mp3 212.53 KBs | |
| 74 In the Arms of My Glasses.mp3 211.51 KBs | |
| 44 Survivor.mp3 207.84 KBs | |
| 73 Malcolm.mp3 207.02 KBs | |
| 15 Father Thames.mp3 196.41 KBs | |
| 16 Bump.mp3 187.43 KBs | |
| 35 Doctor Fell.mp3 178.65 KBs | |
| 78 Epigram.mp3 178.65 KBs | |
| 50 Lord Finchley.mp3 174.98 KBs | |
| 83 Note on Intellectuals.mp3 172.12 KBs | |
| 62 King Charles II.mp3 170.9 KBs | |
| 67 Spring in the Bronx.mp3 163.75 KBs | |
| 09 St Ives.mp3 163.14 KBs | |
| 75 A Comparison of Logs and Dogs.mp3 163.14 KBs | |
| 58 You cannot hope.mp3 158.85 KBs | |
| 63 The Crimes of Lizzie Borden.mp3 156.61 KBs | |
| 70 To Someone Who Insisted That I Look up Someone.mp3 155.18 KBs | |
| 31 Song of the Open Road.mp3 149.06 KBs | |
| 66 On Mary Ann.mp3 148.04 KBs | |
| 55 Peas.mp3 128.85 KBs | |
| 42 Cake.mp3 116.2 KBs | |
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| Comment: | Various - The Nation’s Favourite Comic Poems - Read by Various Updated by AudioBook Bay |
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