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Episode 2
Yorick encounters Smelfungus and is pressed to hire a French manservant while meeting a man mourning for the death of his donkey.
Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal.
Yorick encounters Smelfungus and is pressed to hire a French manservant while meeting a man mourning for the death of his donkey.
Abridged by Robin Brooks.
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
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Tue 25 Aug 200922:45
BBC Radio 4
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- Tue 25 Aug 200922:45BBC Radio 4
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