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Frank Muir Presents ... 500 Years of Humorous Prose

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

5: Mind Your Manners Including Mrs Gaskell 's guide to orange-sucking, Swift's Directions to
Servants and a far from genteel Jane Austen !
Readers Prunella Scales , Richard Briers and Timothy West.
Adapted by Mike Barfield from Frank Muir 's Oxford Book Of Humorous Prose
Producer Colin Swash. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Gaskell
Readers:
Jane Austen
Readers:
Prunella Scales
Readers:
Richard Briers
Readers:
Timothy West.
Adapted By:
Mike Barfield
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Producer:
Colin Swash.
Source: Radio Times

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