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  • Don't Tell Mum

    Hair-raising Messages Home from Gap-year Travellers

    by Simon Hoggart, Emily Monk ...
    The email home is an essential part of every gap-year traveler's journey. Where once the news of narrowly surviving a bus crash on the dirt-roads of India, waking up to gunfire in Honduras, or fending off marriage proposals from complete strangers would have made it home only on the back of a slow-moving battered postcard, these days those tantalizing details and terrible mistakes are now recorded ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • House of Fun

    20 Glorious Years in Parliament

    by Simon Hoggart ...
    House of Fun is a bumper collection of Simon Hoggart's finest and funniest sketches written since he took up the poisoned quill twenty years ago. It is instant history with added jokes.Read about how John Major learned the English language from his time in Nigeria. There is Tony Blair, with his verb-free sentences which imply everything and promise nothing. Gordon Brown, the grumpiest prime ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Uses of Literacy

    Aspects of Working-Class Life

    by Richard Hoggart, Simon Hoggart ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good?When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • House of Fun

    20 Glorious Years in Parliament

    by Simon Hoggart ...
    Read about how John Major learned the English language from his time in Nigeria. There is Tony Blair, with his verb-free sentences which imply everything and promise nothing. Gordon Brown, the grumpiest prime minister of recent years, both Stalin and Mr Bean. And now David Cameron - who really, really hates being drawn with a condom on his head.Let's not forget John Prescott, who can wrestle the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • A Long Lunch

    My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them

    by Simon Hoggart ...
    A host of memories from Simon Hoggart's forty-plus years in journalism. Simon reveals what Alan Clark said about Melvyn Bragg, what really happened at the Lady Chatterley trial, what Cherie Blair said to him and how he riposted, as well as the time John Sergeant drove a flight attendant to a fury, what happened when he mixed a drink for W. H. Auden and the day Enoch Powell met Bill Haley. A Long ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Send Up the Clowns: Parliamentary Sketches: 2007 2011

    by Simon Hoggart ...
    Picking up where The Hands of History left off, Simon Hoggart's brilliant new collection of parliamentary sketches takes us from the dying days of Tony Blair's leadership, through the shadow-filled days of Gordon Brown and on to the utterly bewildering days of that comedy double-act Cameron and Clegg. He charts the events that made the news, the faux-pas that should have, and the myriad mistakes ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Round Robin Letters

    The Ultimate Collection of Christmas Letters

    by Simon Hoggart ...
    A new cover reissue of Simon Hoggart's wonderfully funny collection of round robin letters—the perfect antidote for anyone suffering from an excess of Christmas cheer. Every Christmas, unwanted round robin letters, stuffed with news of young Chloe's nauseating excellence at—well—everything, the announcement of Janet's cousin's husband's friend's divorce, or the details of Terry's colonoscopy, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The News Quiz: Hold The Front Page

    by John Lloyd, Simon Littlefield ...
    Narrated by Simon Hoggart ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 49 min

    The News Quiz, one of Britain's funniest and quirkiest panel games, has been providing headlines and punchlines since it first aired in 1977. In these four episodes, among the panellists offering wit and wisdom on both national and parochial events are Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay and Francis Wheen. Together with guest stars including Phill Jupitus, Linda Smith, Sandi ... Read more

    $9.22 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The News Quiz: Gems from the Archive

    Highlights from the Topical Radio 4 Panel Show

    by BBC Radio Comedy ...
    Narrated by Barry Took, Simon Hoggart ...
    Series Audiobook 26 - The News Quiz

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    A brand-new collection of previously unpublished episodes taken from the programme’s first four decadesShimmering like jewels on a velvet backcloth of world events, this collection presents 14 vintage episodes from BBC Radio 4’s long-running panel show, chaired by Barry Took and Simon HoggartJoining regular panelists Alan Coren, Richard Ingrams, Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen to sparkle humorously ... Read more

    $29.51 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The News Quiz: Through the Years

    Vintage highlights from the topical Radio 4 comedy panel show

    by BBC Radio Comedy ...
    Narrated by Miles Jupp, Sandi Toksvig, Barry Norman, Barry Took, Simon Hoggart ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The News Quiz

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    A finely matured selection of episodes from the long-running topical Radio 4 panel show, chaired by Barry Norman, Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig and Miles Jupp.These fourteen archive editions, all published for the first time, span the decades from 1978 to 2017 and recall the headline-grabbing issues, incidents and individuals of yesteryear.Joining regular panellists Alan Coren, Richard ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection

    Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy

    by BBC Radio Comedy ...
    Narrated by Alan Coren, Barry Took, Full Cast, Simon Hoggart ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The News Quiz

    Unabridged

    1 hour 26 min

    A headline-crunching celebration of Radio 4’s hugely successful topical comedy quiz showThe News Quiz made its debut on Radio 4 in 1977, and four decades later it’s still playfully making and breaking the headlines of our daily news.Among the vintage gems in this collection are 25 Years of the News Quiz, in which Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, John Sergeant, Linda Smith and Francis Wheen ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The News Quiz Classic Collection

    12 original episodes from the topical Radio 4 comedy panel show

    by BBC Radio Comedy ...
    Narrated by Barry Norman, Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, John Sergeant, Mark Steel, Sheridan Morley ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The News Quiz

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    Twelve rare archive editions of the humorous radio quiz show that gives a poke in the eye to the people and stories that make the news.For over forty years The News Quiz has graced the Radio 4 airwaves with an irreverent sideways look at the headlines. Having first appeared in 1977, it boasts a tantalising archive of episodes to remind us of the news from yesteryear, refracted through the ... Read more

    $16.60 CAD