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Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 4
Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 4
Nov 18, 2024 11:33 AM

Author:John Finnemore,Stephanie Cole,Roger Allam,Benedict Cumberbatch,John Finnemore,Full Cast

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 4

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether it's dealing with a stuffed sheep, an angry princess or a rogue fruit tray, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.

Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN Air's formidable boss, has employed two of the very cheapest pilots money can buy: Captain Martin Crieff, who's always wanted to fly and won't let a little thing like lack of ability stop him, and First Officer Douglas Richardson, smooth-voiced old sky god and eternal schemer. Passenger service is provided by the relentlessly cheery Arthur, proud inventor of both Surprising Rice and his own hat.

Written by John Finnemore (John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, The Now Show), Cabin Pressure stars Stephanie Cole as Carolyn, Benedict Cumberbatch as Martin, Roger Allam as Douglas and John Finnemore as Arthur.

‘The more I listen to John Finnemore's Cabin Pressure, the more I think what a stonking masterpiece it is. Perfect in every department.’ – Philip Pullman

'Unexpectedly brilliant' - Time Out

'An inspired new sitcom' – Observer

3 CDs. 2 hrs 48 mins.

Reviews

Hurray! Here's the fourth series of John Finnemore's splendid comedy made magical by the brilliance of its cast.

—— Gillian Reynolds , Daily Telegraph

The more I listen to John Finnemore's Cabin Pressure, the more I think what a stonking masterpiece it is. Perfect in every department.

—— Philip Pullman

Hilarious ... a masterclass in the perils of being a luvvie

—— Daily Mail

One of Britain's funniest writers

—— Daily Mail

Readers at large will be rewarded with self-helpless laughter, generated by the absurdity and blessedness of the job Simkins loves

—— The Times

Terrifyingly accurate

—— Tim Rice

Hugely entertaining

—— Stephen Fry

An accessible guide to roughly 42,000 years of music in just over 300 pages that manages neither to sacfrifice precise detail nor pugnacious opinion ... Goodall is unfailingly acute ... a clever, engaging read

—— Stuart Kelly , Scotland on Sunday

He starts right at the beginning, with 25,000-year-old bone flutes ... It's a huge brief, made huger by Goodall's alertness to new thinking in scholarly circles, and his fondness for interesting asides ... a racily written, learned and often shrewdly insightful book

—— Ivan Hewett , Daily Telegraph (Review)

A roller-coaster ride, which Goodall tells with verve... a racily written, learned and often shrewdly insightful book

—— Ivan Hewett , Daily Telegraph

An accessible guide to roughly 42,000 years of music in just over 300 pages … The Story of Music is a clever, engaging read

—— Stuart Kelly , Scotland on Sunday

Howard Goodall’s beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavour and a groundbreaking map of man’s musical journey

—— Wiltshire News

Goodall's distinguisihing gift is his ability to explain the mechanics of music instead of gliding hastily over them. He is fearless in unknotting those medieval mysteries of oranum and isorhythms, as well as chords, triads, fugues, keys, equal temperament, atonality, dodecaphony and blues

—— Fiona Maddocks , Spectator

There is a Jumpin’ Jack Flash liveliness in Goodall’s approach

—— Iain Finlayson , The Times

A clear and compelling account which is a hymn to human endeavor and a groundbreaking musical journey

—— Kirkham & Fylde

Fascinating – as well as illuminating on how music works

—— The Lady

Who better to demystify the origins of music and trace the evolution of this most universal of artistic disciplines?

—— Neil Norman , Express

At his best, Goodall has a facility for lively shorthand…

—— Adam Mars-Jones , Guardian

Rod Stewart reveals all in a hilarious and, at times, moving book…A brilliant read—you’ll be hooked.

—— Best

[Rod] has warm good humour and a nice line in self-deprecation...He wears it well—and tells it even better.

—— Daily Mail

By some distance the most entertaining of last year’s...rock star memoirs.

—— Uncut Online

This book takes readers on an adventure, that is at times deeply moving, through the life of one of the UK's greatest singers.

—— Hello! online

Ruthlessly entertaining

—— telegraph.co.uk
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