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  • The Notorious Guide to Britain

  • A Fascinating Tour of the Weird, Wonderful, Murderous and Marvellous
  • By: Paul Donnelley
  • Narrated by: Nick Biadon
  • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)
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Summary

A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Britain. Within this audio you will find love and romance, murder and mayhem, royalty, aristocrats and commoners, politics and politicians, sex and scandal, sporting triumphs and sporting disasters, millionaires and eccentrics, film stars and train robbers and much more besides.

  • Why were some customers at Harrods offered cognac or smelling salts during their visit to the store?
  • What links DJ 'Whispering Bob' Harris to a split pair of velvet trousers?
  • Which high street store issued a patent for a drug to treat syphilis?
  • The staff of which shop had uniforms by Mary Quant and hairstyles by Vidal Sassoon?
  • Who placed a sign on her bedroom door bearing the legend 'Chief Chick'?
  • The cashpoint was invented while someone was having a bath.

A fascinating tour of the weird, wonderful, murderous and marvellous by Sunday Times bestselling author Paul Donnelley.

©2022 Paul Donnelley (P)2022 Boldwood Books
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  • Categories: History

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Annoying

This is just a loose collection of random facts, which might have been interesting if it wasn‘t for the fact that each and every location address, with post code and defunct telephone number was read out for each person mentioned. At times it was as if the narrator was reading from a telephone book. If those had been cut out the book would have been half the length. The book also felt as if it had been compiled from random snippets of information, grabbed from the internet. Enough to whet your appetite but nothing really in depth. Disappointing.

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Great Story. Appalling sound.

The book is very interesting, I used it to get ideas for places to visit.

However, whoever decided to turn the noise suppression up to 1000% has really ruined the audiobook. Words cut out and entire sentences become muffled. A shame, the raw audio files should replace the noise suppressed ones, i'd rather a little background noise than words cut out halfway through.

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Terrible sound quality

I was enjoying this so much, but the sound quality is terrible. It stayed with paragraphs being cut mid sentence, or faded out mid word. But by mid chapter two ‘sound suppression software’ has given the whole thing a wobbly feel, making me feel a little woozy!

Had to return. But will buy the physical book as I enjoyed it.

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