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There is one thing the General has forgotten for his shopping trip into town.

Although he has dressed himself carefully as always for his shopping trip into town, there is one thing the General has forgotten. Read by Hugh Bonneville.

Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding.

Although he has dressed himself carefully, as always, for his shopping trip into town, there is one thing the General has forgotten.

Abridged by Sara Davies.

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Louis de Bernieres's book of linked stories about a fictional Surrey village

Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres's new book of linked stories about the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding

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