Marriott Edgar, the monologue maestro's legendary 'The Lion and Albert' plus Stanley Holloway's equally famous 'Sam Small (pick up tha' musket)' plus fun and mayhem from Robb Wilton, Cyril Fletcher, Pat O'Malley, Al Read and many more...

More stars of stage and radio with Norman Long, Ernest Hastings, Will Fyffe, Bernard Newman and a host of other favourites...

Including Joyce Grenfell, Gracie Fields, Elsie & Doris Waters, Doris Hare and, of course, our very own Pam Ayres.

Mike Harding, Les Barker, Gary Hogg, Max Boyce, Bernard Wrigley, Bob Newhart and many other modern-day proclaimers continue the glorious monologue tradition...

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Featuring a few names you wouldn't normally associate with comic verse - so enjoy Eric Idle's 'Wife-Swapping Party' or Denis Healey's 'Ode To Westminster'...

Tall Tales
Read the gripping tale of 'White Willie' the heroic one-legged horse or gasp at Old Jeff, dragged from beneath his steam-roller and folded neatly before being put to bed!!!

Discover the fate of the 'Cabbage Rose', the good ship ' Glue-Pot' and the 'Whats-Her-Name'... and read, with awe, the tale of 'The Diagonal Steam-Trap' and the legend of 'The Million Tonne Tanker'.

Take a ride on 'The 11:69 Express', read the hair-curling 'Engineer's Tale' or enjoy 'Casey's Billy-Goat'.

Have a few giggles with the lads of the Army, Navy, RAF and t'Home Guard at home and away or in war and peace.

A lighter look at some of our favourite sporting events, cricket, football, boxing etc... including the epic tale of John Christopher Brown's mountaineering battle against the villainous Reginald Hake for the love of the beautiful Mary Jane Smith (what a peach!).

Albert lives!!! Albert Ramsbottom, reincarnated in a host of new and hilarious situations.

Turning in his grave?... I imagine the poor old bard must be known as 'Spinning Willy' on the other side!

Do you remember those black and white film shorts of the 1950s/60s with Cyril Fletcher, and others, warning of the hazards of 'Coughs and Sneezes' or 'Posting early for Christmas'... and, of course, poor little 'Gertie' who wouldn't wash her hands!

A prolific writer this fella 'Anon'. 'Piddlin' Pete' and 'The Doggies Meeting' included.

A selection of my own and other readers favourite childhood verse... including 'The Pied-Piper of Hamlin'.

Go riding, riding, riding with 'Dick Turpentine' or enjoy 'The End of the Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe's cat. All the usual apologies will apply.

Visitors have been posting their own monologues and poetry on this site for quite a while, now.

Everybody knows at least one limerick that can reduce family and friends into fits of embarrassment.

Just a few of my favourite sketches from old 78rpm records, radio and tape. One of my earliest childhood memories is 'The Lost Policeman' by Sandy Powell... then, years later, as teenagers, listening to Blaster Bates on a small, ultra-modern, portable reel-to-reel tape player.

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