Episode 1
The difficulties of hiring the perfect coach and four, especially when you are distracted by a beautiful unaccompanied woman.
Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal.
The difficulties of hiring the perfect coach and four, especially when you are distracted by a beautiful unaccompanied woman.
Abridged by Robin Brooks.
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Mon 24 Aug 200922:45BBC Radio 4
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