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On The Town With The League Of Gentlemen

By: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss
Narrated by: Full Cast, Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton
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Summary

 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. Entertainment & Performing Arts Literature & Fiction Performing Arts Funny Witty
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If you could sum up On the Town with The League of Gentlemen in three words, what would they be?

Expect the unexpected. A neatly segued series of sketches in the village of Spent, built into a story line, which led to the dark and hilarious TV series in Royston Vaisey - you'll not want to turn it off. Prime yourself for the side- (and other-) splitting effects of the incompetently murderous vet tending to an unwilling panda, the cockatoo with tooth ache, the swollen hamster and pregnant cow. Meet gruff Barbara the trans-gender taxi-driver. Enjoy the toad-related horrors and more of Naked Thursday - and relish the quickfire timing and puns. What other comedy team could end an episode with "Alas, hoist by my own pet-toad"? Unmissable.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The living scarecrow - but you have to listen to find out it and it's keepers dark secrets...so I'll also nominate Pauline the sadistic Job Centre Manager and her pen-friends - listen in to laugh out loud...

Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favourite?

This is like asking which member of a band is the best; one can't disentangle the cogs in this comedy machine...

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Feeling Spent

Any additional comments?

So much better in digital than on original tape (!) - easy to rewind to rehearse the jokes! Do not read anywhere where you'll be slapped for obviously enjoying yourself too much.

Laugh-out-loud bizarre comedy genre of its own

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I’ve seen the 3 LoG TV series, but not heard any of the radio series. This has a lot of familiarity with the first TV series, and contains many of the characters that fans of the TV series will know. These include Dr Chinnery, Pauline, Pop and the Dentons.

Well written and acted.

Fans of the TV series will enjoy these.

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Where does On the Town with The League of Gentlemen rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It would rank quite high on my comedy scale.

What did you like best about this story?

It includes characters from their previous series and adds a few new ones.

Any additional comments?

Absolutely loved it. A lot of fun from start to finish.

Lots of fun!

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Still stands as one of the funniest Radio Plays ever recorded. A sensational recording and performance.

The Very Best

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Loved this so much. It's slightly different to the tv series but the performances are just as good and characters just as fabulous, even though you can't see them.

Wonderful but probably dated

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