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I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith

By: Edited By Warren Lakin
Narrated by: Linda Smith
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 A sparkling celebration of the wit and wisdom of Linda Smith - a 'national treasure' of Radio 4 and BBC TV.

Linda Smith was the brilliant mainstay of Radio 4's The News Quiz, Just a Minute, and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue for many years. She was just establishing her career on TV through blistering performances on Have I Got News for You, QI and Room 101, when she died of ovarian cancer in 2006.

Linda was one of the few women to conquer the male dominated world of comedy and she had the wit and the charm to win over millions of male and female fans in equal measure. She had an eye for the absurdities of modern life and loved to prick the egos of the pompous and the vain. When she called David Blunkett 'Satan's bearded folk singer', it was a simple statement of fact. No wonder then Linda was voted the 'wittiest person alive' by Radio 4 listeners in 2002.

This collection of her material, from her early stand-up to her radio days, is a must-have for any comedy fan.

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It's a real shame, because I was so much looking forward to listening to this. I loved Linda Smith (I'm not Clive) but, as others have pointed out, it's very difficult to listen to because of the audio quality. I appreciate these weren't professionaly recorded, and form part of essentially a personal collection, but it is still worth alerting other potential listeners. Much of the material of course is still excellent, but it takes real dedication and concentration to listen to. I'm still glad to have it in my collection though.

Shame about the quality

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I really enjoyed this, OK bit of dodgy recording but still funny as hell! loved the local buses material!!!

loved it

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Like many I adore the late Linda Smith. Sadly, these excerpts from her stand-up routines, recorded before her wider successes on BBC Radio 4, lack in both technical audio quality and confident performance. As the narrator explains, they were recorded using often basic equipment to help Linda refine her routines. It's nice to hear material that eventually made it to "Linda Smith's Brief History of Time-wasting", but I suspect this collection will generally disappoint those who came to love Linda's warmth and wit. I'm not overly prudish, but hearing Linda swear - I suspect in order to "fit in" with her peers in stand-up - just sounds so wrong, because she was cleverer and kinder than that. What would later be her strong satirical voice just sounds whiney in her earlier material. I'm happy to have this album as part of my audio collection, but I won't be returning to it very often. Instead I'll enjoy Linda's wonderful appearances on "Just a Minute" and other shows.

Not Linda at her best but good enough

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It's been a while since I sat down and listened to the passion and fervour Linda Smith brought to her comedy, but I'm glad that I found this title as I can come back to her again and again.

The quality of the stand up recordings aren't exactly professional, but as they were for Linda's use rather than publication that makes perfect sense.

A great loss for British Comedy

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OK, so it's live. But the recording is terrible. I'm so disappointed!

Lousy quality recording

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