The Consultants: The Complete Series 1-4
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Narrated by:
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James Rawlings
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Justin Edwards
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Neil Edmond
About this listen
All four series of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 sketch show
Welcome to The Consultants’ lifestyle presentation conference and comedy show – listen and learn as they present their 1000-point plan of action, complete with shouting, songs and plenty of silliness.
In these 22 episodes, the team ponder how to revamp tea to make it more dangerous and exciting, wonder why so many men went to ‘mow a meadow’, practise the dark arts with a lightly tossed salad, and make latex representations of a spaniel with the help of children's entertainer Jeremy Lion. Plus, Demis Roussos and Napoleon Bonaparte enter a witness protection scheme in Swanage, a 'ladies man' sings about his suspect personal hygiene, and two travellers stumble upon a very unusual pub quiz...
Written and performed by Radio 4’s only three-man double act, the Perrier Award-winning Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings, this witty, cerebral sketch comedy features an eclectic mix of puns, serials, ditties and sketches suitable for the elderly, children and elderly children. It will not help you progress along the path to business enlightenment – but it will make you laugh a lot.
Cast and credits
Written and performed by Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings
Produced by Will Saunders
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 13 February-6 March 2003 (Series 1), 20 November-18 December 2003 & 26 May 2004 (Series 2), 14 December 2004-18 January 2005 (Series 3), 18 October-22 November 2005 (Series 4)
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A bad best man’s speech can ruin a wedding. Why do we plan every detail of a perfect day and then give the groom’s idiot best friend five minutes of total power? Enter Nate (Glen Powell), a speechwriter-for-hire who helps people write incredible best man speeches. To keep the best man from embarrassing himself (and the newlyweds), Nate uses his list of don’ts: Don’t mention the exes, don’t be rated R, and don’t bum everyone out. Nate’s system never fails. That is, until he meets Dan (Nicholas Braun).
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SO GOOD
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By: Matthew Starr
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
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The Great Indoors
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Alice's journey begins as all good journeys do: hitting on the sales guy at REI. After a tumultuous breakup, a quick career transition, family upheaval, and a sobriety journey that didn't fix her life quite as much as she expected it to, Alice decides that the only way to solve all her problems is to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. But as she begins preparing for the months-long quest, she realizes the answers she's seeking might not be on top of a snow-covered mountain. Especially since she just learned there was snow in California.
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Chuck full of laughs to lift anyone's spirits.
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I Can't Make This Up
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Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since Old Yeller.
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Best Audiobook I Ever Listened To
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Very Unbecoming
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When two childhood best friends blow up their respective romantic relationships, they make a time-sensitive pact: serial-cheater Chuck cannot sleep with anyone as she attends a three-month-long recovery group for cheaters, while sex-deprived Sofia vows to hook up with as many people as possible before recommitting to monogamy and tying the knot with her long-time fiancé. To keep things interesting, Chuck and Sofia decide to revive a past tradition from their summer camp days—also known as the dawning of sluthood.
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Hilarious
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The True Story of The Coward Brothers
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The True Story of The Coward Brothers follows two musical brothers – one English, one American, both the illegitimate sons of dubious parentage who may, as they claim to be, "one and half-brothers" – perhaps a reference to the disparity in their height and relative talents.
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Cute
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Caledonian Road
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Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.
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The best audiobook I have ever listened to
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American Psycho
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Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
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Fanntastic book but maybe not for everyone....
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Made in America
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In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.
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Bryson Not Reading Makes For a Rare Fail
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- Desertway
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One of my favorite sketch comedies
Clever and funny with a lot of variety. Sketch comedies are hit or miss with me, but I loved this one all the way through.
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- WashingMachineEmulator
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Worth A Listen
Recommended for fans of "That Mitchell & Webb Sound" and many classic Monty Python albums.
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