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Are You Being Served? Camping in written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft performed by John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard and Frank Thornton on Audio CD (Abridged)

Are You Being Served? Camping in written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft performed by John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard and Frank Thornton on Audio CD (Abridged)£39.99

This title features four classic episodes of the long-running BBC TV sitcom starring John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister and others, all previously unavailable on audio. The staff of Grace Brothers department store are embroiled in four rounds of schemes, misunderstandings and skirmishes in which Mrs Slocombe, Mr Humphries, Miss Brahms and Captain Peacock play no small part. This work includes "Camping In",

Angela's Ashes written by Frank McCourt performed by Frank McCourt on CD (Abridged)

Angela's Ashes written by Frank McCourt performed by Frank McCourt on CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9780007117215
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Autobiography
Duration:  180 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Frank McCourt
Narrator 1:  Frank McCourt

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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.""

So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story.

Perhaps it is a story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing shoes repaired with tires, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner, and searching the pubs for his father, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Imbued with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion -- and movingly read in his own voice -- "Angela's Ashes" is a glorious audiobook that bears all the marks of a classic.

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