Eliza
Barry Pain
Read by Nigel Boydell
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rather pompous main character, and his long suffering wife, Eliza. (Summary by Nigel Boydell) (2 hr 20 min)
Chapters
| 01 - Eliza's Husband | 9:26 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 02 - The Cards | 6:35 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 03 - Eliza's Mother | 8:13 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 04 - Miss Sakers | 6:35 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 05 - The Orchestrome | 5:32 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 06 - The Tonic Port | 6:25 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 07 - The Gentleman of Title | 5:09 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 08 - The Hat | 4:20 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 09 - My Fortune | 6:22 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 10 - Shakespeare | 5:51 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 11 - The Unsolved Problem | 5:26 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 12 - The Day Off | 6:34 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 13 - The Mushroom | 5:21 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 14 - The Pleasant Surprise | 6:31 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 15 - The Mopworths | 6:22 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 16 - The Pen-wiper | 5:16 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 17 - The 9.43 | 4:36 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 18 - The Conundrums | 5:28 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 19 - The Ink | 4:40 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 20 - The Public Scandal | 6:01 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 21 - The "Christian Martyr" | 4:50 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 22 - The Pagrams | 5:48 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
| 23 - Promotion | 9:38 | Read by Nigel Boydell |
Reviews
Humorous Short Sketches from 1900
bowhows
Nigel Boydell does a fantastic job narrating these short stories about a middle class couple in England at the turn of the last century. Just a little spoiler, since I imagine most listeners won't get the point of the joke of the fourth tale, "Miss Sakers," the item his wife is embroidering is a sanitary napkin.