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The Little Book Of Mornington Crescent

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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 includes 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 - and it is the only BBC radio show other than the Proms that can charge for admission!

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Product Details
0752844229 / 9780752844220
Paperback / softback
06/09/2001
United Kingdom
English
112p. : ill.
15 cm
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Reprint. Radio tie-in. Originally published: 2000.
The official history of perhaps the most distinguished game in the world! The hardback edition of The Little Book of Mornington Crescent sold 40,000 copies, and reprinted four times Listener figures to the radio show are now over 2 million each week and tickets to the recordings are so keenly sought after that shows are now being held in thousand-seat theatres around the country The show has, in recent years, also attracted a substantial youth following. Guests such as Paul Merton, Stephen Fry and Jeremy Hardy have also helped to bring in new listeners Orion's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue has so
The official history of perhaps the most distinguished game in the world! The hardback edition of The Little Book of Mornington Crescent sold 40,000 copies, and reprinted four times Listener figures to the radio show are now over 2 million each week and tickets to the recordings are so keenly sought after that shows are now being held in thousand-seat theatres around the country The show has, in recent years, also attracted a substantial youth following. Guests such as Paul Merton, Stephen Fry and Jeremy Hardy have also helped to bring in new listeners Orion's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue has so APW Radio, WDM Indoor games, WH Humour