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By Sarah Millican. Young hairdresser Kitty gets some work experience in a funeral parlour.

By Sarah Millican. The comedian reads her short story about a Kitty, a compassionate young hairdresser getting her work experience in a funeral parlour. From August 2009.

Written and read by Sarah Millican.


Kitty does the hair of the dead. Just the front... A moving (and very funny) short story about a compassionate undertaker's assistant. 


Another chance to hear this series of short stories by leading comedians recorded live in front of a packed audience at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009. Still to come - at the same time over the next couple of Wednesdays - are stories by Jon Richardson and Susan Calman.


Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

Comic Fringes: Comic Fringes: Series 5

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