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The Casebook of Inspector Steine The Complete Second Radio Series written by Lynne Truss performed by Michael Fenton Stevens, Janet Ellis, Nicholas Le Provost and Mark Heap on Audio CD (Unabridged)

The Casebook of Inspector Steine The Complete Second Radio Series written by Lynne Truss performed by Michael Fenton Stevens, Janet Ellis, Nicholas Le Provost and Mark Heap on Audio CD (Unabridged)£14.99

This is the second series of Lynne Truss' hugely popular BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller. Inspector Steine - the amiable, unworldly detective who refuses to believe in Brighton's criminal underworld - returns for another six episodes. It is 1957 and, as the series opens, all crime has stopped along the South Coast. But Mrs Groynes - the cockney charlady who is actually a criminal mastermind - is desperate to get back in business, and a performance at the Hippodrome gives her...

Talk to the Hand written by Lynne Truss performed by Lynne Truss on Audio CD (Abridged)

Talk to the Hand written by Lynne Truss performed by Lynne Truss on Audio CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9780563504344
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Humour
Duration:  135 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Lynne Truss
Performer 1:  Lynne Truss
Rarity:  Rare

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This title is a hilarious rallying cry for courtesy, written and read by the bestselling author of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves". 'Talk to the hand, coz the face ain't listening', the saying goes. How did society get so rude? "Talk to the Hand" explores the boorishness of the modern world, and the sense of outrage that infects us when we discover that other...

people are - generally speaking - crass, selfish and inconsiderate. That man just dropped a cigarette packet on the floor. Should you do anything? You say to the shop assistant, 'Can you tell me the price of this? There doesn't appear to bea label' and she says, 'What do you think I am, psychic?'.

In her follow-up to "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", Lynne Truss asks why rudeness is a universal flashpoint and examines specific sources of affront. What ever happened to 'please' and 'thank you'? Why does the customer have to do all the work? Why do people behave in public as if they are in private?

Whatever happened to the idea of public-spiritedness? It's a big rant, essentially. But on the plus side, it's quite short and has virtually no hard facts to slow the argument.

You are advised that there is nothing here about pandas or punctuation, and that anyone listening out for grammatical errors will be considered a bit of a bore.

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