On the Town with The League of Gentlemen cover art

On the Town with The League of Gentlemen

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends December 1, 2025 11:59pm GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Join Audible for only £0.99/mo for the first 3 months, and get a bonus £10 Audible voucher. Bonus credit notification will be received via email.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

On the Town with The League of Gentlemen

By: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
Narrated by: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Full Cast
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends December 1, 2025 11:59pm GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

Limited time offer. £0.99/mo for the first 3 months + £10 Audible voucher, and £8.99/month thereafter. Terms apply. Get this deal.

About this listen

 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 actuely observed, The League of Gentlemen's highly acclaimed brand of comedy shows human nature at its most extreme, and most hilarious.

©1999, 2002 BBC Worldwide Ltd (P)1999, 2002 BBC Worldwide Ltd Literature & Fiction Funny Witty

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The League of Gentlemen TV Series Collection cover art
That Mitchell and Webb Sound: The Complete Series 1-5 cover art
Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series cover art
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon cover art
Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection cover art
Sean Lock: 15 Minutes of Misery & 15 Storeys High cover art
The Mighty Boosh cover art
Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge cover art
From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 1) cover art
The Fast Show cover art
I, Regress: The Complete Series 1-2 cover art
Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome cover art
Kevin Eldon Will See You Now: The Complete Series 1-4 cover art
Toast on Toast cover art
Into the Uncanny cover art
I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan cover art
All stars
Most relevant
I Love the league more than life itself! So much fun, interesting play of the TV show in its infancy.

Okey cokey pig in a pokey!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very enjoyable - I'd recommend this to any League of Gentlement fans. I have this and series 2 and 3 - I listen to them all, wait a few months to forget the jokes a bit and then listen again. I've done that several times! It's a work of genius! Only thing I'd like too is series 1 which doesn't seem to be available. Thanks to the creators of this for making me laugh many times over.

Brilliant!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Any additional comments?

Love this radio series. The cast are beyond brilliant in all the roles. If you're a fan of the television series, listen to this too.

Brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
absolutely 💯 love the league of gentlemen a very very special show.......what I disliked is there is not enough of league of gentlemen on audible

abso outstanding

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The League Of Gentlemen TV series is the best British comedy show ever…and I was brought up on Monty Python, Viv Stanshall’s “Rawlinson End” and The Young Ones! I didn’t think anything could be funnier, darker or weirder than that lot…until TLOG showed up!
If I was talented enough to write the perfect comedy series for myself, then TLOG would be it.
I missed this early version of “Royston Vasey” when it was originally on Radio as the goings-on in “Spent”, so catching up was priceless! This is unmissable for anyone who loves the TV series.
Don’t think…just BUY!
You’ll thank yourself later.

“Spent” evolving into “Royston Vasey” is so funny I didn’t even notice that Tubbs and Edward hadn’t moved in yet!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I have always loved the league of gentlemen, but only seen them on TV.
Do it, do it, do it!

You should listen to this. 😍

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fans of The League of Gentlemen should keep this in their treasured collection as a go to for a quick pick me up. Brilliant and horrifying as ever, these are the choicest cuts from a very dodgy butcher...

Royston Vasey’s Finest

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Some of the humour hasn't aged well, but the characters, plots, and dark, bizarre situations are superb.

If you enjoyed the TV series, I'd highly recommend listening to this and going back to where it started!

So glad this is available digitally

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A overused term but this is nothing short of comedy gold. In many ways the radio show is better than the TV version as the look of characters are left to your imagination!

Genius.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

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

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews