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Using guide books that help plan our outings, Tony Hawks takes a tour of Dorset tea rooms.

4 Extra Debut. Using the guide books that help plan our outings, comedian Tony Hawks takes a tour of the tea rooms of Dorset. From May 2000.

Comedian and writer Tony Hawks tests the guide books that claim to help us navigate our way around our holidays. 

Kicking off this 6-part series, Tony goes in search of that very British creation, the tea-room. 

Should it be milk or tea in first to make the very best cuppa? Armed with his guide, Tony's tea tour takes in the delights of Dorset. But what is it that writers think of in order establish real tea-room credibility for guide-readers, including the needs of visitors from abroad?
 
Producer:  Lucy Willmore 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.

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The comedian and author explores the books that tell us where to go and what to do.

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