I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again

Sep 15, 2025 1:46 AM

Author:BBC,Tim Brooke-Taylor,John Cleese,Graeme Garden,Bill Oddie,David Hatch,Jo Kendall

Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic', I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again pre-dated I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. This compilation of classic sketches, includes 'Full Frontal Radio', 'Prune Manifesto', 'Buffers', 'Critics', 'News in Welsh', 'Listening to Flowers', 'Eddie Waring Impersonation' and 'Taming of the Shrew'. Vintage Beeb: classic albums first available as BBC LPs, now reissued on CD and as downloads.

Reviews

A fascinating and insightful read.

—— Natasha Usher , British Journal of General Practice

An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope

—— Evening Standard

Faulks is beyond doubt a master

—— Financial Times

His most ambitious novel yet... Love, loyalty, courage, compassion, goodness...these are the poles around which his always skilful storytelling revolves

—— Independent

Shocking and enlightening...touching and affecting

—— Daily Mail

He is the best novelist of his generation

—— Scotsman

An epic of a novel...in some ways better than Birdsong, or at least more subtle and far ranging

—— Country Life

This is a bold and remarkable work of imagination, particularly in its daring remastery of the 19th-century novel form and the sustained grace of its prose. To write so well for so many hundreds of pages is an amazing feat of intellectual athleticism

—— Jane Shilling , Sunday Telegraph

Faulks has woven dozens of compelling voices together to produce an extraordinary novel of magnificent scope

—— Jonathan Ree , Evening Standard

[S]tructurally intricate, yet intensely focused on the lives of individuals...Human Traces is replete with interesting ideas and contains some exceptionally fine topographic writing

—— Jane Stevenson , Observer

One of the most impressive novelists of his generation

—— Sunday Telegraph

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