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The "Navy Lark": Troutbridge Joins the Fleet No.11 (BBC Radio Collection)

Authors: Laurie Wyman, George Evans
Creators: Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Ronnie Barker
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 620016

Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.2 x 0.6

ISBN: 0563552212
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9780563552215
ASIN: 0563552212

Publication Date: April 6, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Please allow 5 to 7 days for delivery. Help us recycle and plant trees, we donate 5p to the Woodland Trust for every book sold. Case has tiny crack

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

The first of a great series Larking about in the Navy January 12, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

From start to finish you cannot help giggling all the way through. It certainly shows the Navy in a different light. You can easily understand how these actors went on to become household names and old favourites.

5 out of 5 stars

Wholesome, good old fashioned comedy May 16, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

Having grown up addicted to TV, I never realised that my imagination could do so much until I listened to The Navy Lark. The characters are so real and hilariously funny - I think even the dog laughed!!. Sitting at home one sunny Sunday afternoon listening to the ''radio'' transported me back to another time and place. I recommend this audio cassetee to anyone who likes good old fashioned British humour. Excellent value for money and gives your imagination a real workout. If you want to clear the cobwebs-buy it!

5 out of 5 stars

Other motorists thought that I must be mad... April 2, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

...I was laughing so hard - damn nearly howling, to be perfectly frank. Never, ever, play any of the 'Navy Lark' cassettes in your car unless you want to look like a complete gibbering imbecile, or a stark raving nutter. Even were it possible to explain the humour to Americans in the Middle West, they still wouldn't understand what all the noise was about. Such was my experience, the first time I listened to a 'Navy Lark' set: 'Troutbridge', in this case. It caught my interest because of Jon Pertwee's involvement - it kept my interest because it was simply marvellous.

These comic gems, originally broadcast more than a decade before I was born, stand the test of time far better than one might expect. It is a tribute to the actors involved, and to the writing of Lawrie Wyman, that these are as good as they are. 'Troutbridge Goes Dutch', in which HMS Troutbridge accidentally captures a German submarine fifteen years after the end of the war, is brilliant. In another story, Jon Pertwee's Chief Petty Officer is selling off mulitple duplicates of the - non-existent - figurehead from HMS Victory, lovingly carved by Ronnie Barker. Leslie Phillips does his usual star turn as the bird-brained Lieutennant, and Stephen Murray is as firm as the rock of Gibraltar.

For heaven's sake, don't just buy this cassette to have a bit of a laugh and then toss in the bin. This is light entertainment, certainly. Sometimes, however, that's the very best, isnt' it? Buy it for a lark, if you will, and laugh again and again.

5 out of 5 stars Seagoing shenanigins of the highest order! March 8, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

The Navy Lark always manages to raise a smile! Unlike its modern counterparts, it is pure, honest and simple character based comedy. This tape features four fab episodes, listen to the trials and tribulations as they approach Clodwilly Rock Lighthouse, and my favourite characters of all, the ever sick "Lad" and his cheif engineer. Jon Pertwee and Leslie Phillips are seriously silly and never fail to produce laughs. Buy it, enjoy it and laugh.