1000 Years of Laughter

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1000 Years of Laughter (more info)
Composed by: David Timson
Griff Rhys Jones, narrator
Carole Boyd, reader
John Moffatt, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
Cathy Sara, reader
David Timson, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. Laughter - Robert Burton - 2:37
2. Anglo-Saxon Riddles - 2:35
3. The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambriensis - 1:13
4. 14th century advice from Johannes de Mirfeld - 1:33
5. An Alphabet of Tales - 1:20
6. Demanundes Joyous - 1:07
7. The Gull's Horn-book - 3:55
8. Wits, Fits and Fancies - 0:49
9. Eight kinds of Drunkenness from Pierce Penniless His Supplication To The Devil - 2:24
10. Launce and his Dog - 2:38
11. The Anatomy Of Melancholy - 4:42
12. Jokes from 17th centruy jest book - 2:29
13. The great age of clubs - 2:39
14. The Club of Little Men - 2:22
15. The Club Of She-Romps - 2:06
16. The Club Of Ugly Faces - 1:32
17. The Island of Laputa - 7:06
18. Peregrine Pickle - 9:47
19. Tristram Shandy - 6:23
20. Tristram Shandy - 8:25
21. Tristram Shandy - 1:41
22. Fanny Burney's Diary 1785 - 3:09
23. Fanny Burney's Diary 1785 - 6:10

1000 Years of Laughter (more info)
Composed by: David Timson
Griff Rhys Jones, narrator
Carole Boyd, reader
John Moffatt, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
Cathy Sara, reader
David Timson, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. Emma - 5:01
2. That We Should Rise with the Lark - 4:35
3. Lamb's Letter to H.F. Carey - 4:35
4. Sayings of Sydney Smith - 2:49
5. Mrs. Caudles Curtain Lectures - 8:09
6. Victorian Humour: Oscar Wilde to Punch - 1:57
7. De Omnibus - 8:10
8. At Rochester - 6:31
9. The Pickwick Papers - 5:18
10. The Old Curiosity Shop - 8:37
11. To Agnes Hull - 3:46
12. The Mad Hatter's Tea Party - 8:24
13. The Wind in the Willows - 5:35
14. The Wind in the Willows - 3:27

1000 Years of Laughter (more info)
Composed by: David Timson
Griff Rhys Jones, narrator
Carole Boyd, reader
John Moffatt, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
Cathy Sara, reader
David Timson, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. The Diary Of A Nobody - 7:51
2. Happy Thoughts - 9:40
3. Two on a Tower - 9:40
4. Mr Polly - 5:35
5. Mr Polly - 7:44
6. Three Men in a Boat - 7:18
7. Three Men in a Boat - 5:05
8. Rip Van Winkle - 7:23
9. Josh Billings, His Sayings - 0:57
10. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - 4:07
11. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - 3:50

1000 Years of Laughter (more info)
Composed by: David Timson
Griff Rhys Jones, narrator
Carole Boyd, reader
John Moffatt, reader
Jonathan Keeble, reader
Cathy Sara, reader
David Timson, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. The one-liner - 1:45
2. The Waltz - 10:36
3. The Young visiters - 10:29
4. Reginald On House-Parties - 6:10
5. Right Ho Jeeves - 9:45
6. Right Ho Jeeves - 10:02
7. Jeeves Takes Charge - 5:55
8. The Remarkable Rocket - 2:40
9. The Squib, the Roman Candle, the Catherine Wheel - 1:39
10. The Rocket - 4:13
11. The Rocket - 'What right have you to be happy?' - 4:13
12. The dance - and the firework display - 3:06
13. A little frog, with bright jewelled eyes - 3:01
14. A large white duck - 3:29
15. So they piled up the wood and put Rocket on top, and lit the fire - 2:02

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