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Tales From A Long Room (BBC Radio Collection) [Audiobook] [Box set] (Audio Cassette)

by Peter Tinniswood (Author), Robin Bailey (Reader)
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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd (12 Sep 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0563225815
  • ISBN-13: 978-0563225812
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 360,621 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Features 10 tales narrated by Robin Bailey. Running time 2 hours 30 minutes

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Cricketing and Humorous Masterpiece, 4 Aug 2007
This review is from: Tales from a Long Room (Paperback)
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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5.0 out of 5 stars Tall tales indeed!, 2 Sep 2009
By M. Shuttleworth "Shucky" (Bolton UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tales from a Long Room (Paperback)
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.

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