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Laura Solon Talking And Not Talking

By: Laura Solon
Narrated by: Laura Solon
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 The complete BBC Radio 4 series by Perrier Award-winner Laura Solon. Laura Solon won the Perrier at Edinburgh Festival in 2005 with her sensational debut show. In this, her complete Radio 4 series, all six episodes feature a mix of monologues and sketches from this extraordinary writer and performer. There will be talking, not talking, some stories and a lion made out of china. Aided by Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond, Laura Solon is an award winning talent with an astonishing eye for detail and ear for voice. ‘The writing is as fresh as a cowslip, as sharp as a kitchen-knife, and sometimes as coarse as a fishwife’ - Telegraph '... moments of twisted genius' - Observer 'Talking and Not Talking is very clever' - Times 'Solon's series stood out for its self-assurance, its unforced oddness...' – Independent 'She's a remarkable talent' - Guardian 'Laura Solon is the new Catherine Tate' - Mail on Sunday©2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd; (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd Entertainment & Performing Arts Funny

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Laura Solon and her amazing cast create world which you will be quoting for days to come.

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Shut up go away.

The funniest comedy show you have never heard of.

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I hope this goes to TV because I haven't laughed at a sketch show like this since Little Britain

Brilliant outstanding

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Laura Solon's Radio 4 show, available here as the complete series is nothing short of comic genius.



A fast-paced sketch show, the characters are never introduced, they just 'are'. Many of them are on-off soundbites, but there are many recurring characters, the greatest of which is 'the woman in the house' who is a mad old German woman who obviously has lots of people workign for her, but her only friend is 'China Lion'. She appears every episode, and every episode has a different story of how she came to acquire China Lion.



There is also the stately home owner with a Red Setter called Lindy whose estate is overrun with rats.



I defy you to listen to more than one episode without losing just a little bit of wee.

Comic Genius

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