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Books : Hoffnung: A Last Encore (includes the Oxford Union Speech) (BBC Radio Collection)
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Hoffnung: A Last Encore (includes the Oxford Union Speech) (BBC Radio Collection) by: Gerard Hoffnung List Price: £12.72 CD-Charts Price: £8.44 You Save: £4.28 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 817 EAN: 9780563536758 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0563536756 Label: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Manufacturer: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publication Date: July 01, 2002 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Release Date: July 01, 2002 Studio: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Sales Rank: 9729 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A delightful trip into the absurdAnother reviewer of this product complained that the interview section with Charles Richardson isn't very funny - a reaction I simply can't understand, as these twelve interviews are simply the funniest exchanges I have ever heard. Gerard Hoffnung was just 35 when he died, but he sounds like a portly (and utterly mad) sixty-year-old, and his timing and instinct for the absurd are just exquisite. A special mention to Charles Richardson, a totally straight American reporter, assigned to extract a meaningful interviews from this eminent musician and cartoonist but finding each attempt he makes to start a conversation quickly unravelling and thus being driven ever so gently to utter exasperation. Richardson surely *must* have been ... Read More: Rating: - A neglected gemThis is great comedy. At turns surreal, observational and improvisational with superb timing and delivery. Any fan of anything funny at all should give this a whirl. Soon you'll also wonder why Hoffnung is not a household name along with others of his time. Ignore the absence of hype. Get it and chuckle. Rating:  - A mixture of the dire and the inspiredGerard Hoffnung died in the year I was born -- 1959 -- at the absurdly young age of 34. Today he is best known for his cartoons and THAT speech to the Oxford Union, recorded a year earlier, where he tells the story of the bricklayer & the pulley and reads out some alleged replies from Tyrolean hoteliers to his wife's request for a room. If you didn't know his age, you'd assume from his manner that he was a rather portly fifty or sixty-year-old. In his eccentric interviews with the North American Charles Richardson on CD1 of this collection, Richardson remarks more than once on Hoffnung's weight and diet. It is regrettable that Hoffnung, who died of a stroke, didn't take more notice of this warning. The Oxford Union ... Read More: Rating: - Classic HoffnungThis audio gem is an absolute must for Hoffnung fans. Containing the famous Charles Richardson interviews and the Oxford Union "bricklayer" speech, it will have you laughing until you cry. As a Hoffnung fan since I was at school, it was a delight to listen to him again after so many years. Immaculate. Rating: - English humour at its bestYou need to know nothing of Hoffnungs work to appreciate his surreal and humanistic sense of humour. These tapes never fail to help lighten me up when I need a good laugh. The interviews with Charles are the highlight for me. Worth six stars! |
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