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 - 02:37
2. Anglo-Saxon Riddles - 02:35
3. The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambriensis - 01:13
4. 14th century advice from Johannes de Mirfeld - 01:33
5. An Alphabet of Tales - 01:20
6. Demanundes Joyous - 01:07
7. The Gull's Horn-book - 03:55
8. Wits, Fits and Fancies - 00:49
9. Eight kinds of Drunkenness from Pierce Penniless His Supplication To The Devil - 02:24
10. Launce and his Dog - 02:38
11. The Anatomy Of Melancholy - 04:42
12. Jokes from 17th centruy jest book - 02:29
13. The great age of clubs - 02:39
14. The Club of Little Men - 02:22
15. The Club Of She-Romps - 02:06
16. The Club Of Ugly Faces - 01:32
17. The Island of Laputa - 07:06
18. Peregrine Pickle - 09:47
19. Tristram Shandy - 06:23
20. Tristram Shandy - 08:25
21. Tristram Shandy - 01:41
22. Fanny Burney's Diary 1785 - 03:09
23. Fanny Burney's Diary 1785 - 06:10

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 - 05:01
2. That We Should Rise with the Lark - 04:35
3. Lamb's Letter to H.F. Carey - 04:35
4. Sayings of Sydney Smith - 02:49
5. Mrs. Caudles Curtain Lectures - 08:09
6. Victorian Humour: Oscar Wilde to Punch - 01:57
7. De Omnibus - 08:10
8. At Rochester - 06:31
9. The Pickwick Papers - 05:18
10. The Old Curiosity Shop - 08:37
11. To Agnes Hull - 03:46
12. The Mad Hatter's Tea Party - 08:24
13. The Wind in the Willows - 05:35
14. The Wind in the Willows - 03:27

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 - 07:51
2. Happy Thoughts - 09:40
3. Two on a Tower - 09:40
4. Mr Polly - 05:35
5. Mr Polly - 07:44
6. Three Men in a Boat - 07:18
7. Three Men in a Boat - 05:05
8. Rip Van Winkle - 07:23
9. Josh Billings, His Sayings - 00:57
10. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - 04:07
11. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - 03:50

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 - 01:45
2. The Waltz - 10:36
3. The Young visiters - 10:29
4. Reginald On House-Parties - 06:10
5. Right Ho Jeeves - 09:45
6. Right Ho Jeeves - 10:02
7. Jeeves Takes Charge - 05:55
8. The Remarkable Rocket - 02:40
9. The Squib, the Roman Candle, the Catherine Wheel - 01:39
10. The Rocket - 04:13
11. The Rocket - 'What right have you to be happy?' - 04:13
12. The dance - and the firework display - 03:06
13. A little frog, with bright jewelled eyes - 03:01
14. A large white duck - 03:29
15. So they piled up the wood and put Rocket on top, and lit the fire - 02:02

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