A gently hilarious full-cast deconstruction of John Buchan's ripping yarn, courtesy of the British Comedy Company. It's a hoot!

Well the title looks familiar . . . and Peter Mayle's "A Year in Provence" may have been the trigger for Christopher Marsh's brilliant debut novel - but there the similarities end. Rather than a middle class Brit travelling all the way to the South of France to patronize the locals, Southern Europe gets its own back courtesy of Jesus Sanchez Ventura - the funniest fictional creation in many a year. And I mean that.

"The World's Worst Poet?"


William Topaz McGonagall is widely renowned as one of the world's worst-ever published poets. Yet his discordant muse is hugely popular all over the world - no less a figure than Spike Milligan was obsessed with him. But how do we account for this morbid fascination with verse of little or no discernible merit whatsoever?

Finally on audio! 25 of Neil Munro's captivating tales of Para Handy, captain of the "Vital Spark", the "smertest" steamboat ever to sail the River Clyde.