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The New Bath Guide

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"He will make you bepiss your cheeks with laughter," said Horace Walpole when he read The New Bath Guide by the poet Christopher Anstey. Biographer Kathryn Hughes travels to Bath to discover more about the writer who was the toast of Bath in 1766 and who satirised the fashions and foibles of Bath society 30 years before Jane Austen.
Producer Philippa Ritchie Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Horace Walpole
Unknown:
Christopher Anstey.
Unknown:
Kathryn Hughes
Unknown:
Jane Austen.
Producer:
Philippa Ritchie
Mr'nkie:
Roy Hudd
Prudence:
Colleen Prendergast
Simkin Blunderhead:
Nicholas Boulton
Source: Radio Times

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