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Joyce Grenfell Requests The Pleasure
Joyce Grenfell Requests The Pleasure
Apr 23, 2025 5:32 AM

Author:Joyce Grenfell,Joyce Grenfell

Joyce Grenfell Requests The Pleasure

Joyce Grenfell was known and loved all over the world for her monologues, songs and comic writing. Her career, which spanned more than thirty years, saw her work in many different areas, from wartime entertainment tours to performances on radio, stage and screen. All were graced with Joyce's usual charm, humour and talent. As well as appearing in countless revues and films she toured the world with her one-woman shows, going to the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. As she tells the story of her long and varied career, Joyce sketches some wonderful comic descriptions of the many people encountered along the way. Her glamorous and madcap American mother, her Aunt Nancy Astor and her beloved husband Reggie are just a few of the larger-than-life characters who people this captivating reading.

Reviews

The English Bill Bryson

—— Tony Wilson

The perfect pop fan's life ... effortlessly articulate

—— The Times

Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton

—— Peter Kay

An heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful

—— Antony Quinn , Sunday Times

If you only read one personal music odyssey, make it this one

—— GQ

Witty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North

—— Hunter Davies

A working class boy who now, on air, challenges Stephen Fry's spry wit, Maconie celebrates his younger self modestly and fluently, pausing only for regular rib-ticklers

—— Mojo

Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny

—— Guardian

Exuberantly anecdotal, witty and poignant

—— GQ
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