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'Linda Smith's everyday conversation contained more jokes than most comedy scripts and more social comment than most dramas.'
(INDEPENDENT )'One of the best-loved and funniest voices on radio.'
(EVENING STANDARD )'The funniest woman I have ever known.'
(SIMON HOGGART )'The many tributes last week describing the late Linda Smith as one of the funniest women in Britain have got it wrong. Linda was simply one of the funniest people in Britain and her gifts were such that most of the time, listening to her thoughtful, provocative, casually brilliant one-liners, you forgot she was a woman. I mean that in the best way, the same way that when you read Margaret Atwood or Zadie Smith, you are not conscious of reading a 'lady novelist'.'
(STEPHANIE MERRIT, OBSERVER )Maureen Lipman, Guardian
'This is a ravishing book and I urge you to read it'
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Absolutely wonderful collection of Linda's work from her first stand-ups, through her radio sitcom scripts to amazingly funny bites from her the news quiz, Just a Minute and Have I Got News for You (amongst many other things). I was spluttering, absolutely exploding with laughter. The amazing finale is the transcript of a stand up she did in Sudbury.
Friends and people Linda worked with do intros to the chapters which are poignant and well placed. Amazing tribute to the funniest person we've had around for a long time.
Friends and people Linda worked with do intros to the chapters which are poignant and well placed. Amazing tribute to the funniest person we've had around for a long time.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Linda Smith was a Radio 4 favourite for many years before her untimely death, and this book is a thorough example of why she was so loved. She was innocent(-seeming), optimistic and determined, yet Linda Smith was one of the all-time masters of sarcasm and dry wit. If only there were more such literate, intelligent and angry people broadcasting today.
A well put-together book- a few page-long tributes from close friends and a short introduction from her partner act as punctuation between big helpings of Linda's comedy, which ranges from stand-up and Radio 4 transcripts to scripts and published writing.
A well put-together book- a few page-long tributes from close friends and a short introduction from her partner act as punctuation between big helpings of Linda's comedy, which ranges from stand-up and Radio 4 transcripts to scripts and published writing.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Having read the earlier reviews and have enjoyed immensely Linda's contributions on Radio 4, I was really looking forward to this double CD. It appears, however, to be very different from what was described for the book. The recordings go back as far as 1986 and were made for Linda's own personal use, so they are of variable quality in all senses. Hattie Hayridge introduces the performances and explains their context but it seemed to me that, particularly in the earlier sessions, Linda's timing and confidence were very far from what they came to be. Most disappointingly, all her Radio 4 work was squeezed into the last nine minutes as a medley of brief snippets without particular rhyme nor reason. All in all, it most definitely does not do her justice and is far, far from being The Very Best of Linda Smith.
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Not like listening to her on radio
It is nice to have some of Linda's material in print, but the book gives only a pale reflection of how brilliantly funny she was. Better try to get hold of radio recordings.
Published 22 months ago by Violent Elizabeth
Linda Smith
I am about one quater of the way through this book and it is ok not wonderful but an ok read
Published on 28 Feb 2010 by Mrs. Pauline Chaplin
Very poor sound quality
The CD is essentially produced from feeds on live performances. These feeds were not set up for high quality recording and were not for public release and accordingly the sound... Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2009 by Quentin Earle
Some good lines
We all enjoyed Linda Smith's brilliant work on the News Quiz, so I was pleased to come across this collection in a charity shop a few weeks ago. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2008 by Jeremy Walton
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