FOR THOSE WHO LIKE HUMOUROUS POETRY & comic songs, SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT FOR THE IMPENDING SEASON OF GOODWILL

I just heard "Send in the cones" (Clowns) on BBC Radio2. Thought this info is worth sharing.

http://www.mrsackroyd.com/catnav.htm Les Barker
http://www.bcab.org.uk/guide-cats.html BCAB website
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwoTM-wZXY4 sample1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWl0QD9W-Oc sample2


ALSO AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL DOWNLOAD --- and you know its for a good cause!
And available from AMAZON (UK) if you want to help Mudcat too!

GUIDE CATS FOR THE BLIND (DOUBLE CD): OSMO CD020,021 £7
CD 1

   1. Les Barker: Guide Cats for the Blind (4.13)
   2. Ken Bruce: Across the Plains of Africa (1.42)
   3. Mike Harding: The Curse of the House of the Baskervilles (5.52)
      from Mrs Ackroyd Superstar
   4. Ned Sherrin: Stamped Addressed Antelope (1.15)
   5. Sarah Kennedy: Sprouts (1.23)
   6. Sir Jimmy Young: Reg the Vegetable Gardener (1.34)
   7. Bill Caddick: Custard Creams (3.49)
      from Tubular Dogs
   8. Gerard McDermott: Waste Not, Want Not (3.10)
   9. Brian Perkins: Shipping Forecast (1.39)
10. Sally Boazman: Crawl of the Light Brigade (2.33)
11. Johnnie Walker: The Man Next Door's a Burglar (1.08)
12. June Tabor: Git a Long Little Dogie (2.50)
      from Tubular Dogs
13. Heinz Wolff: Administerium and the Science of Unclear Physics (4.23)
14. Nonny James: Nobody Hugs a Hedgehog (1.30)
15. Allan Beswick: Jehovah's Witness at the Door (5.25)
16. Ryan Kelly: Blessed Are the Meek (1.59)
17. Cyril Tawney: Sammy's Bar Revisited (2.41)
18. Nicholas Parsons: Amnesia (3.11)
19. Paul Gambaccini: The Last But One of the Mohicans (1.33)
20. Dave Cash + Five Guide Cats of Arijaba: Detritus / Tu Haiku (4.16)

CD 2

21. Sic Transit: Sidney (2.50)
22. Terry Wogan: Have You Got Any News of the Iceberg? (2.03)
23. Nonny James: Spot of the Antarctic (3.11)
24. Roy Hudd: An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables (2.01)
25. Bernard Wrigley: The Man Who Was Eaten By His Own Bum (3.38)
26. Charlotte Green: VoiceMail (1.47)
27. Billy Butler: It Was the Surprise More Than Anything (1.59)
28. Martin Carthy: Hard Cheese of Old England (2.53)
      from Oranges and Lemmings
29. Peter White: I Can't Find My Camouflage Net (1.05)
30. Dave Cash: Detritus (2.37)
31. Brian Matthew: The Dog Formerly Known as Prince (0.35)
32. Galliard: The Unigate Milkman (3.52)
33. Trevor Peacock: Captain Indecisive (3.40)
34. Roger Lloyd Pack: One Legged Horse (2.35)
35. Cyril Tawney: Lassie Free and Easy (2.40)
36. Ian MacMillan: Ancient Mariner.Com (2.12)
37. Nicky Campbell: The Phoenix (1.30)
38. Genevieve Tudor: Everything Glows (2.40)
39. Mark and Lard: Jason and the Arguments (4.40)
40. Les Barker: Déjà Vu (4.31)

MISSING PERSIANS FILE: OSMO CD032, £7

   1. John Humphrys: The Stealth Comma (1.55)
   2. Joss Ackland: If (1.49)
   3. Harvey Andrews & John Shepherd: Missing Persians File (2.49)
   4. Prunella Scales: A Crufts Conversation (1.56)
   5. Les Barker: Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife Thrower (4.15)
   6. Emma Chambers: I Don't Like My Boomerang (2.08)
   7. Tom Paxton: Will the Turtle Be Unbroken (4.25)
   8. Timothy West & Prunella Scales: My Snails Have Not Yet Arrived (2.44)
   9. Jeremy Vine: Napoleon's Circular Retreat from Reading (2.49)
10. Nonny James: Lorna the Library Book Burglar (2.40)
11. Genevieve Tudor: Travel Iron (2.10)
12. Ed Stewart: Spot Was Not Like the Rest (1.30)
13. Steve Tilston: Dipsticks & Seals (5.24)
14. Frank Hennessy: Death by Daffodils (3.02)
15. Ryan Kelly: Self Knowledge (1.17)
16. Roger Lloyd Pack: Non Sequitors (1.51)
17. Rodney Bewes: One-Way Cul-de-Sac (1.41)
18. Sic Transit: The King of Rome (2.21)
19. Desmond Carrington: The Undead Parrot (3.03)
20. Gerard McDermott: King Harold Was a Ventriloquist (3.59)
21. Trevor Peacock: A Very English Thing (2.56)
22. The Mrs Ackroyd Band: The Lemmings Reunion (4.33)

TOP CAT WHITE TIE AND TAILS: OSMO CD041, £7

   1. Dave Cash: The Franco-Prussian War of the Spanish Succession (3.57)
   2. Nonny James: Top Cat, White Tie and Tails (2.18)
   3. Roger Lloyd Pack: Knot (3.01)
   4. Joss Ackland: An Admission (1.28)
   5. Robert Lindsay: The Mask of Mono (2.27)
   6. Les Barker: The Church of the Wholly Undecided (3.57)
   7. Jenny Agutter: Bungee Jumping for Lemmings (1.29)
   8. Tim Brooke-Taylor: Mute Swan (0.12)
   9. Edward de Souza: Disaster at Sea (0.43)
10. Prunella Scales: No May (1.26)
11. Trevor Peacock: Inconsonants (3.24)
12. Tony Hawks: I Used to Be a Singer in a Rock Band (1.16)
13. Tessa Peake-Jones: Acupuncture (2.05)
14. Tim Brooke-Taylor: The Author's Story (2.46)
15. Andrew Sachs: On Performing Poetry (0.06)
16. Jenny Agutter: Garden Waste (2.55)
17. Michael Cochrane: Home Improvement (1.40)
18. Peter Donaldson: My Phone's Out of Order (2.39)
19. Judi Spiers: Go Stay and Fetch (1.33)
20. Andrew Sachs: Leonardo Da Thingy (3.06)
21. Ken Bruce: McPherson's Lament (0.59)
22. Norma Dixit: Reg Was a Lonely Glow Worm (2.36)
23. Gerard McDermott: The Y Files (3.35)
24. Joss Ackland: Oh Lord When I Die (2.21)
25. Christopher Cazenove: Chronology (2.25)
26. Clare Balding and Jimmy McGrath: The Charge of the Late Brigade (1.44)
27. Edward de Souza: The Secret (0.11)

CAT NAV: OSMO CD050/051 (DOUBLE CD), £12

CD1
01 - What Is - Nik Kershaw
02 - The Lost Elephants Of Denbigh - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr
Rowan Williams
03 - Quasi B Good - John Benns with Fairport Convention feat. Wurzel
04 - Non Stick Pan - Mikey Hughes
05 - Hip Hop Hamlet - The Mrs Ackroyd Band
06 - Fishing For Sheep - Roger Lloyd Pack
07 - Cat Nav - Keith Donnelly
08 - The Nine Banded Armadillo - Bob Harris
09 - Arnold - The Austin Lounge Lizards
10 - Apocalypse Yesterday - James Naughtie
11 - Send In The Cones - Nonny James
12 - A Faulty Stereo - Norma Dixit
13 - She Moved Through The Fair - Simon Mayor and Hilary James
14 - Who Can You Ask When You're God? - Gary O'Donoghue
15 - Dachshunds With Erections - Sniff Patrol
16 - Us Goldfish - Barry Farrimond
17 - You Won't Like Tom Jones - Jez Lowe
18 - The Lonely Little Lemming - Shirley Henderson
19 - Absent Friends - Edward de Souza
20 - Flat Earth - Richard Briers
21 - Hunting The Cutty Wren - Jill Grant and Alan Berry
22 - I Can't Believe It's Not Beef Dripping - Bernard Wrigley
23 - I Can't Find My Invisibility Cloak - Ken Galipeau
24 - My Shi Tsu - Jeremy Taylor
25 - A Bunch Of Mimes - George Hamilton iv
CD2
01 - I Drive A Four By Four Four Door Fortress - Chumbawamba
02 - Mid Life Crocus - Alan Titchmarsh
03 - You'll Never Get To New Orleans - Reg Webb
04 - Sex Is Better Than Poetry - Les Barker
05 - The Verb To Be - Dave Cash
06 - Odd Socks - Bernard Cribbins
07 - Auntie Beryl's New PC - The King's Singers
08 - Why Don't They Write It On The Side? - Richard Briers
09 - Roseville Fair - The Haley Sisters feat. Ric Sanders
10 - The Ballad Of Cosmo McGrew - Shep Woolley
11 - The De'il's Awa' Wi' The Exercise Bike - Isla St Clair
12 - Je Ne Sais Quoi - Charles Collingwood
13 - My Husband's Got No Porridge In Him - Norma Waterson
14 - The Duvet Cover - Susan Jameson
15 - Hedgehogs - Louis de Berniere with Tom Bliss
16 - Seeing Is Retrieving - Sian Phillips
17 - Ben Kenobi - Wheeler Street feat. Roy Bailey
18 - Cosmo, Prince Of Denmark - Edward de Souza
19 - Sloop John A - Dan and Gene
Hidden track (I'm not telling you where it is):-
Yr Eliffantod Colledig O Ddinbych - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr
Rowan Williams

Anyone bought these already and want to comment?