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Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Series: Ukridge, Book 4, Drones Club, Book 4
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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Publisher's Summary
These wonderfully funny short stories feature a cast of outrageous characters, all plotting to save themselves from wedlock, poverty, or ignominy - with various degrees of success. This recording includes the following stories: "All's Well with Bingo", "Bingo and the Peke Crisis", "The Editor Regrets", "Sonny Boy", "Anselm Gets His Chance", "Romance at Droitgate Spa", "A Bit of Luck for Mabel", "Buttercup Day", and "Ukridge and the Old Stepper".
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- M
- 09-17-21
One of my favorite narrators!
Mr. Cecil is one of my favorite narrators, and I’ve listened to many. I know many experienced and well educated listeners will agree with me that his talent is difficult to match.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Gets annoying
Way too old. You can hear the mouthful of old man dental work and saliva sloshing around in his pronunciations.
I also take issue with the latitude taken to assign a speech impediment (understandably more prevalent in Britain because like dentistry, speech pathology isn’t a thing) to the main character, Bingo Little. While clever in theory, it grew... VERY annoying. Very. Fast.
Or shall I say “Vewy. Fast.”