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1000 Years of Laughter (Compilation)

1000 Years of Laughter (Compilation)


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Author(s):
Timson, David
Catalogue No.: NA426912
ISBN No.: 9789626342695
Total Playing Time: 05:03:51

Track Details

Disc 1
Timson, David - author(s)
1000 Years of Laughter 05:03:51
1 Laughter - Robert Burton 00:02:37
2 Anglo-Saxon Riddles 00:02:35
3 The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambriensis 00:01:13
4 14th century advice from Johannes de Mirfeld 00:01:33
5 An Alphabet of Tales 00:01:20
6 Demanundes Joyous 00:01:07
7 The Gull's Horn-book 00:03:55
8 Wits, Fits and Fancies 00:00:49
9 Eight kinds of Drunkenness from Pierce Penniless His Supplication To The Devil 00:02:24
10 Launce and his Dog 00:02:38
11 The Anatomy Of Melancholy 00:04:42
12 Jokes from 17th centruy jest book 00:02:29
13 The great age of clubs 00:02:39
14 The Club of Little Men 00:02:22
15 The Club Of She-Romps 00:02:06
16 The Club Of Ugly Faces 00:01:32
17 The Island of Laputa 00:07:06
18 Peregrine Pickle 00:09:47
19 Tristram Shandy 00:06:23
20 Tristram Shandy 00:08:25
21 Tristram Shandy 00:01:41
22 Fanny Burney's Diary 1785 00:03:09
23 Fanny Burney's Diary 1785 00:06:10

Disc 2
Timson, David - author(s)
1000 Years of Laughter 05:03:51
1 Emma 00:05:01
2 That We Should Rise with the Lark 00:04:35
3 Lamb's Letter to H.F. Carey 00:04:35
4 Sayings of Sydney Smith 00:02:49
5 Mrs. Caudles Curtain Lectures 00:08:09
6 Victorian Humour: Oscar Wilde to Punch 00:01:57
7 De Omnibus 00:08:10
8 At Rochester 00:06:31
9 The Pickwick Papers 00:05:18
10 The Old Curiosity Shop 00:08:37
11 To Agnes Hull 00:03:46
12 The Mad Hatter's Tea Party 00:08:24
13 The Wind in the Willows 00:05:35
14 The Wind in the Willows 00:03:27

Disc 3
Timson, David - author(s)
1000 Years of Laughter 05:03:51
1 The Diary Of A Nobody 00:07:51
2 Happy Thoughts 00:09:40
3 Two on a Tower 00:09:40
4 Mr Polly 00:05:35
5 Mr Polly 00:07:44
6 Three Men in a Boat 00:07:18
7 Three Men in a Boat 00:05:05
8 Rip Van Winkle 00:07:23
9 Josh Billings, His Sayings 00:00:57
10 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 00:04:07
11 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 00:03:50

Disc 4
Timson, David - author(s)
1000 Years of Laughter 05:03:51
1 The one-liner 00:01:45
2 The Waltz 00:10:36
3 The Young visiters 00:10:29
4 Reginald On House-Parties 00:06:10
5 Right Ho Jeeves 00:09:45
6 Right Ho Jeeves 00:10:02
7 Jeeves Takes Charge 00:05:55
8 The Remarkable Rocket 00:02:40
9 The Squib, the Roman Candle, the Catherine Wheel 00:01:39
10 The Rocket 00:04:13
11 The Rocket - 'What right have you to be happy?' 00:04:13
12 The dance - and the firework display 00:03:06
13 A little frog, with bright jewelled eyes 00:03:01
14 A large white duck 00:03:29
15 So they piled up the wood and put Rocket on top, and lit the fire 00:02:02