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This collection continues our trawl through early 1992.
Mingling With Toffs. Why does Antoinette think Dennis is the very man? What’s it got to do with the Fine Arts Society? What was a great honour? Why did Dennis have to put on the suit? And why didn’t he know where he was? How did he get his hand stuck? What is a duck triathlon?
Advice Shed No. 5: Hake and Maggots. Listener Martin has a problem with his wife Enid. Dennis has advice on being too polite, shopping bag hats and everlasting stew. Plus, he has plenty to say on the last piece of cake and ‘chewer or chewee’. Thought for the Week features Tarzan.
Advice Shed No. 6: Stout or Slim? A pair of portly partners ask for advice. There’s calamity poetry, Granny’s solution to earwigs, the hypocrisy of mealtimes and how to get candyfloss off a dog.
Advice shed No. 7: A Fen Curriculum. What should people be taught? Dennis warns against the dangers of a too-tight basket on your bike and the hardness of tyres. Plus there’s wrapping your fish and chips right, talking to royalty, the slicing of a cake, and you’ve never had it.
Hayden Catchpole. What was Hayden Catchpole’s skill? What did he do fresh every morning? Why did his platform say ‘Ah’ on the side? What was the secret of his stamina? How did he print his leaflets? Was he really electrified by the fault? What’s the best way mollify a Windy Huts baby?
Be warned: this collection contains bandaging buttocks, salad cream, longjohns, sofa mining, a gusset, decoy dandruff, verge veg, a pram wheel, balsam lozenges, a podium cubbyhole, grasping and striding, Monty Lardo, kissing babies, savoury tartlets, pre-Colombian folk narrative themes, late mediaeval epic calligraphy, chiaroscuro and mole-catching.
Running time: over 70 minutes of pure Grunty Fen-ness.
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