A First Class Collection

~ Release by John Betjeman (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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CD 1
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1Introduction, Part 1
spoken vocals:
Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion2:41
2Introduction, Part 2
spoken vocals:
Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion3:43
3Introduction, Part 3
spoken vocals:
Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion3:05
4Introduction, Part 4
spoken vocals:
Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion4:20
5Introduction, Part 5
spoken vocals:
Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion3:06
6Introduction, Part 6
spoken vocals:
Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion1:50
7Indoor Games Near Newbury
John Betjeman3:38
8Station Syren
John Betjeman1:15
9Thoughts on ‘The Diary of a Nobody’
John Betjeman1:31
10Executive
John Betjeman1:49
11Business Girls
recording of:
Business Girls
writer:
John Betjeman
John Betjeman2:21
12Parliament Hill Fields
John Betjeman1:59
13The City
John Betjeman1:11
14Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants
John Betjeman2:20
15Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus
John Betjeman3:06
16Seaside Golf
John Betjeman1:10
17Trebetherick
John Betjeman3:16
18On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
John Betjeman1:36
19For Nineteenth-Century Burials
John Betjeman0:44
20Christmas
recording of:
Christmas
writer:
Sir John Betjeman
John Betjeman2:40
21Death of King George V
John Betjeman1:06
22Hymn
John Betjeman1:26
23Our Padre
John Betjeman1:10
24Harvest Hymn
John Betjeman1:21
25Middlesex
John Betjeman1:56
26The Olympic Girl
John Betjeman1:50
27In the Public Gardens
John Betjeman1:10
28Senex
John Betjeman1:24
29Pot Pourri From a Surrey Garden
John Betjeman1:58
30In a Bath Teashop
John Betjeman0:29
31The Cockney Amorist
John Betjeman1:15
32An Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Hymn
John Betjeman1:10
33A Shropshire Lad
John Betjeman1:28
34Guilt
John Betjeman1:36
35House of Rest
John Betjeman2:04
36Archibald
John Betjeman2:30
37Oxford: Sudden Illness at the Bus Stop
John Betjeman1:30
38A Child Ill
John Betjeman1:13
39Felixstowe, or the Last of Her Order
John Betjeman2:28
CD 2
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1Myfanwy
recording of:
Myfanwy
writer:
Sir John Betjeman
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2Hunter Trials
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3County and Slough
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4Meditation on the A30
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5The Varsity Student’s Rag
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6The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
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7On Seeing an Old Poet in the Cafe Royal
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8A Russell Flint
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9The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
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10Late-Flowering Lust?:??
11Good-bye
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12Death in Leamington
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13Sun and Fun
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14Uffington
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15The Hon. Sec.
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16Lenten Thoughts on High Anglican
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17Diary of a Church Mouse?:??
18Wantage Bells
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19The Planster’s Vision
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20Bristol
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21Westgate-on-Sea
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22Dilton Marsh Halt
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23Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station
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24Great Central Railway: Sheffield Victoria to Banbury
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25The Metropolitan Railway
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26Harrow on the Hill
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27Group Life: Letchworth
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28False Security
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29The Costa Blanca
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30Caprice
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31A Subaltern’s Love Song?:??
32Agricultural Caress
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33In Westminster Abbey
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34Devonshire Street W.I.
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35Preface to ‘High and Low’
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36The Last Laugh
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37Reproof Deserved or After the Lecture
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Credits

Release

manufactured in:EU
spoken vocals:Stephen Fry (English comedian, actor, writer, presenter & activist)
Derek Jacobi (actor and stage director)
Susan Jameson (English actor)
Miriam Margolyes
Samuel West (British actor, director)
copyrighted (©) by and phonographic copyright (℗) by:BBC Audiobooks Ltd. (in 2000, in 2006)
glass mastered by:Sony DADC (company; use on releases if exact pressing location is not known)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/11636227 [info]
ASIN:UK: 1846070678 [info]