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Title details for On the Town With the League of Gentlemen by Jeremy Dyson - Available

On the Town With the League of Gentlemen

by Jeremy Dyson
Mark Gatiss
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The winners of the 1997 Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in their first Sony Award-winning radio series. 'Cruelly intelligent, deeply hilarious, unmissably good' - Glasgow Herald. Welcome to Spent - an isolated and rather odd town somewhere in the North. Its singular inhabitants lead blackly comic lives, from Dr Chinnery, the lethally incompetent vet and Pauline, the monstrous Restart Officer at the Job Centre, to the hideously exacting Dentons who impose their disturbing habits and pet toads upon their visiting nephew Ben. These and other memorable townsfolk are ferried around by Barbara, a taxi driver half way through his sex change, and served by Mr Iingleby, who brings a whole new meaning to the term 'small shopkeeper'. Murderously funny and acutely observed, 'The League of Gentlemen's' highly acclaimed brand of comedy shows human nature at its most extreme - and most hilarious.

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  • Release date

    December 1, 2004

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781405697323
      • File size: 84505 KB
      • Duration: 02:56:03

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      ON THE TOWN WITH THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN is a bizarre black comedy, occasionally bordering on the bawdy, set in a small northern English town called Spent. Each half-hour installment of this 1997 BBC radio show (its success generated a television show) combines seemingly disparate sketches into a comedic whole. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith, creators of the series, perform all the various characters with skill and levity. The hilariously weird cast include radio disc jockey Bernice Woodall, whose dulcet tones hide a loathing of everyone; Mr. Chinnery, the local vet with little luck or expertise; and the gravel-voiced Barbara, a taxi driver in the middle of a sex-change procedure. A.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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