Play on Words

Do you love a play on words? Do you love to be taken on a journey from the comfort of your armchair? If so this book could be for you! As a taster… STEPHEN: Well don’t forget my cousin’s a seamstress if that helps. I know she’s busy with some items this evening actually. JIM Is she making ‘em? STEPHEN: No Altrincham. To start with anyway then later I expect she’ll also be doing her usual trick of linking together two or more garments by twisting the ends around each other. JIM: Oh you mean she’ll be … STEPHEN: Nottingham. Of course she has been known to make a complete pig’s ear of what previously were perfectly good items of clothing. JIM: Oh so she … STEPHEN: Wrexham yes. The Grand Tour of the British Isles from which that excerpt comes is one of this six-part comedy series written with radio in mind but where the individual episodes could be presented as part of a theatre company’s comedy night. From place names to people and from songs to stars this is a feast of wordplay to satisfy even the hungriest stomachs. What are you waiting for? Tuck in!