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Do you love a play on words? Do you love to be taken on a journey from the comfort of your armchair? If so, this book could be for you! As a taster... STEPHEN: Well, don't forget my cousin's a seamstress if that helps. I know she's busy with some items this evening, actually. JIM Is she making 'em? STEPHEN: No, Altrincham. To start with, anyway, then later I expect she'll also be doing her usual trick of linking together two or more garments by twisting the ends around each other. JIM: Oh, you mean she'll be ... STEPHEN: Nottingham. Of course she has been known to make a complete pig's ear of what previously were perfectly good items of clothing. JIM: Oh, so she ... STEPHEN: Wrexham, yes. The Grand Tour of the British Isles, from which that excerpt comes, is one of this six-part comedy series written with radio in mind but where the individual episodes could be presented as part of a theatre company's comedy night. From place names to people and from songs to stars, this is a feast of wordplay to satisfy even the hungriest stomachs. What are you waiting for? Tuck in

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Henry Dawe is an actor and writer whose work has been performed in London (the Canal Cafe Theatre, the Club for Acts and Actors, the Cockpit Theatre, the Museum of Comedy), at the Leicester Comedy Festival and on national and regional radio. He has taken parts in most of those productions. This series draws inspiration from his love for wordplay and for the Golden Age of British Comedy.

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