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  • Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure

  • By: Joyce Grenfell
  • Narrated by: Joyce Grenfell
  • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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By: Joyce Grenfell
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Joyce Grenfell was known and loved all over the world for her monologues, her songs, and her comic writing. Her career, which spanned more than 30 years, saw her work in many different areas. From wartime entertainment tours to performances on radio, stage, and screen, all were graced with Joyce's usual charm, humour, and talent.

As she tells the story of her long and varied career, Joyce sketches wonderful comic descriptions of the many people encountered along the way. Her glamorous and madcap American mother, her aunt Nancy Astor, and her beloved husband Reggie are just some of the larger-than-life characters that people this captivating reading.

©2000 BBC Worldwide Ltd; 1976 Joyce Grenfell (P)1989, 2000 BBC Worldwide Ltd

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A voice from another era

The wonderful Joyce Grenfell narrates the story of her early life and career with all of the style and flair you'd expect. The world of England and English theatre in the first half of the 20th century has almost entirely disappeared now, and memoirs such as this help to keep this vanished world alive and in focus. A pity that the book/recording seems so heavily, and clumsily, shortened.

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