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With Great Pleasure: Richard Briers

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Actor Richard Briers chooses some of his favourite performance pieces.

Richard Briers chooses some of his favourite performance pieces including Dickens, PG Wodehouse, and Noel Coward. From 2007. 

Much-loved screen, stage and radio actor, Richard Briers chooses some of his favourite performance pieces in the company of his daughter Lucy Briers and his old friend Peter Egan.

Includes extracts from PG Wodehouse, William Shakespeare and Dorothy Parker.

Producer: Christine Hall

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.

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