Mornington Crescent is a game whose rules and history are shrouded in myth and legend. Games can last as long as a few minutes and the best rival chess in their intellectual dexterity, poker in their subtlety and cunning and Ker-Plunk! in their ability to turn youth and age into one harmonious sort of thing. This book is a history of the game and a study of the great players who have graced the game over nearly a century. It will include testimony from today's great exponents and hints from the professionals on how to play the game more effectively. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is the most listened-to comedy programme on British radio, an institution with regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and until 1996 Willie Rushton, being given silly things to do by jazz supremo Humphrey Lyttelton. Listener figures are now over 2 million each week. Tickets are so keenly sought after shows are now held in 1500 seat theatres around the country and it is the only BBC radio show other than the Proms that can charge for admission.

The Little Book of Mornington Crescent

Humor & Entertainment

LYTTELTON, HUMPHREY

Garden, Graeme

Naismith, Jon

Pattinson, Iain

Brooke-Taylor, Tim

Cryer, Barry

Puzzles & Games

Orion Pub Co

Mornington Crescent is a game whose rules and history are shrouded in myth and legend. This book is a history of the game and a study of the great players who have graced it for nearly a century. It will include testimony from today's great exponents, and hints from the professionals on how to play the game more effectively. The game is a feature on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, the most listened-to comedy program on British radio.

Orion Publishing

Lists the most memorable and influential jazz recordings made from 1917 through the 1930s, with revealing anecdotal accounts of the great jazz musicians and their sideman

The Best of Jazz 1: Basin Street to Harlem : Jazz Masters and Master Pieces, 1917-1930

Arts & Photography

Music

Taplinger Pub. Co

The Best of Jazz II Enter the Giants, 1931-1944

Taplinger Publishing. Co

Humphrey Lyttelton's highly original THE BEST OF JAZZ is a must for the novice fan and the devotee alike. Looking in detail at the great jazz figures of the twenties and thirties as well as their classic recordings, Humph provides plenty of lively historical background, often taken from the reminiscences of the musiciams involved.

Enter the Grants (The Bst of Jazz)

Robson Books Ltd.

The Best of Jazz: Basin Street to Harlem - Jazz Masters and Masterpieces, 1917-30 (The best of jazz)

The best of jazz: Basin Street to Harlem

Robson Books

This is a collection, a Baedeker, an AA guide, perhaps, of things little-known about Britain, seen through the eyes of the host and team of the popular TV show I’m Sorry I Haven’t Got a Clue as they go on the road in search of national treasures.

Lyttelton's Britain: A Complete Guide to the British Isles as heard on BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue written by Iain Pattinson

Humor

Preface Publishing

The Best of Jazz

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Robson Book Ltd

The legendary band leader and jazz trumpeter, broadcaster and humorist looks back at his extraordinarily rich and varied life and the many colorful characters he has known and played with—from Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong. He also recalls his early life as the son of a famous housemaster at Eton, where he was educated. In 1949 he joined the Daily Mail as cartoonist, wrote the story-line for Trog's "Flook" cartoon, and also signed a recording contract with EMI. He had the first British jazz record to get into the Top 20 in 1956 with "Bad Penny Blues." The book will appeal to his large cult following, both from his regular live appearances with his band, as the irrepressible chairman of BBC Radio 4's popular nonsense quiz "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" and as the presenter of "The Best of Jazz" since 1967.

It Just Occured to Me . . .: An Autobiographical Scrapbook

The legendary band leader and jazz trumpeter, broadcaster and humorist looks back at his extraordinarily rich and varied life and the many colourful characters he has known and played with - from Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong. He also recalls his early life as the son of a famous housemaster at Eton, where he was educated. During the war, he served in the Grenadier Guards and, on demobilisation, studied for two years at Camberwell Arts School. In 1949, he joined the "Daily Mail" as cartoonist, wrote the story-line for Trog's "Flook" cartoon, and also signed a recording contract with EMI. He had the first British jazz record to get into the Top Twenty in 1956 with 'Bad Penny Blues'. The book will appeal to his large cult following, both from his regular live appearances with his band, as the irrepressible chairman of BBC Radio 4's popular nonsense quiz 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and as the presenter of "The Best of Jazz" since 1967.

It Just Occurred to Me . . .: The Reminiscences & Thoughts of Chairman Humph

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