Now We Are Sixty
Christopher Matthew
Nov 2019 · John Murray · Vorgelesen von Christopher Matthew, Amanda Waring, Derek Waring, Geoffrey Palmer, Martin Jarvis, Robert Daws und Virginia McKenna
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Christopher Matthew's tribute to A. A. Milne's classic poems - such as 'Buckingham Palace', 'Lines and Squares', 'Puppy and I' and 'Rice Pudding' - is the perfect listen for those just turning sixty. Publishing for the first time in audio download to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original publication of the book.
When Christopher was six, the poems of Milne were always on hand to reassure him that other children were just as puzzled and naughty and silly as he was, and that grown-ups could be even sillier.
When he turned sixty, he decided it was high time there was an equally reassuring volume for those of his generation who were not only more confused than ever, but were losing their teeth, their hair and, all too often, their car keys.
What he did twenty years ago was to take some of Milne's best-loved poems from Now We Are Six for an older audience, with results that are often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising one is not as young as one once thought, and not feeling quite as chipper as one once did; while others address some of the more disconcerting problems of modern life such as mobile telephones on trains, unsocial behaviour, traffic jams and the internet.
'A wonderful present to sixty-year-olds' Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph
(P) 2001 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
When Christopher was six, the poems of Milne were always on hand to reassure him that other children were just as puzzled and naughty and silly as he was, and that grown-ups could be even sillier.
When he turned sixty, he decided it was high time there was an equally reassuring volume for those of his generation who were not only more confused than ever, but were losing their teeth, their hair and, all too often, their car keys.
What he did twenty years ago was to take some of Milne's best-loved poems from Now We Are Six for an older audience, with results that are often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising one is not as young as one once thought, and not feeling quite as chipper as one once did; while others address some of the more disconcerting problems of modern life such as mobile telephones on trains, unsocial behaviour, traffic jams and the internet.
'A wonderful present to sixty-year-olds' Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph
(P) 2001 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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Apart from Now We Are Sixty, Christopher Matthew is best known for his Diary of a Somebody and its accident-prone hero Simon Crisp, whom Sheridan Morley called 'one of the greatest comic characters of our time'. More recently he has published The Old Man and the Knee and three volumes of humorous verse - The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on His Toe, Dog Treats and A Bus Pass Named Desire - now collected in one volume under the title A Triple Decker Treat: Collected Poems for Old Dogs and Young Hearts. He lives in London and Suffolk.
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