In the country small is how it is inconceivable the so little is known about the all the way of life to anybody living south of the gap gentleman England is a nation divided his words brought forth an outburst of protest but the wave of his strong hands he silenced him and his matter of fact analysis riveted his audience the southern modal reeled into the realisation that the North was planning to break away from the rest of Britain to become a separate state self-governing under this man Peabody Brown who were a suit of Lincoln green in honor of Robin Hood and he was now the emblem of the struggle for freedom and so gentlemen don't make the mistake of tracing this business tonight the stranger said as loud Bellamy threw open of those they mean to present had with their plans to Paterson the country heavy breathing full of the strangest symmetry and also Willoughby Willoughby noted Would it help things if we gave them a few bob told reboot. 11 slightly It was suggested that they should join the main party on the lawn and there was commence to shuffle out of the study callosum the hammock aware of the child among looking at it with undisguised and Kalar father said That means an acquaintance of mine Mr Albert Butler white teeth flushed as the man bowed his head and thumped like an overstretched drum skin please to major mishap matter he rest Calicut said Likewise I'm sure Mr Butler he smiled again not Mr but I beg of you call me back and I need to read his eyes devout her beauty she felt as if he had stooped to have Vesta knickers he's pursing gaze she couldn't run away down the gazebo and that she wished she hadn't fall behind a potted fern inside the summer house she said Ashton went in an embrace with many . Colors ice one which is the whole body shook with jealousy and rage they took an effort of will to stop herself marching into the gazebo and pulling Melanie's at about roots she bawled her hands into tight fists she clearly heard well say in a trembling voice no humanity mind numbing he shall not have him you in separate bitch calibrated to her teeth with that she silently waits for the shrubbery oblivious to the cat being sick and the party seems to be breaking up and making for the house curious Caliph Olive the gas into the elegant lands and suddenly wonder why they seem to be gripping it on the television screen in Evening News flicking into focus she saw her father and his influential friends listening avidly to the news read the demonstration was broken up by the police but it is fair that the prime minister was it several times with a pen full of Lancashire hotpot as he walked into the Guild Hall the newsreader paused and there appeared on the screen a rather large lady in a Red Hat smock in the primaries his head with a saucepan the contents of the vessel could be seen dribbling the other promises weskit from a man who still in the middle of his bald head you may have just been handed a newsflash and used just to clean his throat. Don't be body Brown the sofa appointed prime minister from the north of England and stated that Lancashire and Yorkshire with Cumbernauld humble and have declared that they are now no longer to be governed by Westminster and that all Southern based companies in the north are to be taken over by the new confederation of counties Mr Peabody Brownsburg early today in Halifax the screen Szymon for a moment there on came a picture of Peabody Brown in the suit of Lincoln green and dressing a packed hall in the town fellow Northerners the time is approaching for all true men of this great Shi'a just done and be counted for years we have been enslaved by the faceless politicians in Westminster. Our cotton mills now lyin cheatin dead I'll coal mine is different than I was shipyards closed I want children now without bread our women folk in rags he pauses shook his bow and arrow his face was screwed as it were the mace of rage the shout of all the economic wealth in the good life is the hazard our next bend I was swept I would load well and no Friesian of my friends and I call on Cheshire and I burn me I'm sure l.h. Of the flag of rebellion this flag the flag of freedom and that point to Billy Manning Pete Capps joined Peabody Brown on the roster and who filled a standard upon which was a Yorkshire pudding and a Lancashire but putting on a background of chipped potatoes all matters pile for ticks to route to the spot as the news ended in the screen went blank mag guard declares a no pulse it's West and I thought Cal and pouted her party was in ruins Fiddlesticks she brayed she's only a storm in a teacup with that she tried to entertain the gathering with this but it's acceptance and impression of Jimmy Cagney read butler still alone in the corner of the room with the sad Onyx man of the lips snow minutes eager way how little they knew these facts idiots war was in the air they were too blind to see it he would go right out of the coming conflict already was making an enormous profit from smuggling whiskey into the south his main concern now was how to get Calum out his knickers then. Come up with the will was written animated by love. Produced by Richard winds. Come back with the wind. I'm a peacock and you're listening to Les on b.b.c. Radio 4 extra The theme music you just heard was played by last Olson himself he was an accomplished pianist with a love of classical music but as with his comedy he could not resist the urge to prick the pomposity of ill playing the last night off and subverting expectations an edge borne of comedic instincts his nail and it's another man who mixes the comic on the musical Let's pick it done Copyright 2 Swan Lake Ok the other. Is begging for a chord change but when he doesn't it's funny because the weeks come to expect it to me is going to take you somewhere that is clearly wrong whereas But he carries it off by so think it's wonderful Yeah it's not just the piano playing it isn't just not how it's that he has bravado about this because he believes that he's doing it correctly yes it has a single chastise the audience for not keeping up with it is quite right yet it is wonderful is it in a way it's like the injustice of it all but the fact is he's wrong and everybody knows they're right yeah it's a wonderful conspiracy it really is reverse. We found a piano we thought we could have fun piano now. And it's pleasantly tuned to a purpose I'll give you just really have to do but. See this isn't generally in the slots one night it was just one no one not yeah but actually as you say that's what I mean I mean beautiful Tchaikovsky. Well we. Need to do it in the most absurd but. I just reply. They can't just write badly it's going to be funny and I think. Cool is that I also genuinely boy. If you put this bit I want with disposable income I like it and it's hard yeah. Meanwhile back in the studio. There was also thing that he did which is much I think probably my favorite as those mime and which was the son the same feelings and he basically did vocally what he did not get. Through them so I would know who was because let's send it straight for a good choice. Downtown proper COAs kicks in and then some feed the feeds back wonderfully Ok amazingly Ok the release is not written this is also the time where you can really feel it that the Opus maybe they were slightly uncomfortable that he was again properly. The thing is he knew what he was doing musically and yeah you can if you can sing in page she can sing out of pitch terror Yeah and it's never his typical of Les to sort of set it up like that yeah for for the relief to happen and just do it you know semi turn or turn above where it should be and it takes concentration and ability to do there I mean people who don't know you know. Get up and sing at weddings or whatever and it's funny it's. Something something elegant about it being deliberate Yeah yeah I think everybody picks up on that but when we hear somebody who is sitting out to tears and making a mess with your one of us brother. I have acquired a less says he was a phony musician which probably his movements comically did when he when he 1st got out in the clubs he did do some good straight using the place kind of properly and it wasn't working out from what I can gauge he considered himself not a great musician because he failed it and that's interesting because you're a genius in his comedy less is probably sort of gilding the lily a bit yeah you know I mean what he's really saying is that people don't want just good music blares I know how tricky it is you know sort of like Franco from big city to actually saying a proper song and I do write proposition. And I think we have ages to sort of work around to get an audience of about 12. Get what I'm doing yes I think I can take that with a pinch of salt he really knew what he was doing Yeah but it's time now to love a man who can claim to have had 14 years of his show business career wrapped up in this very theater it's the easiest introduction. Evident in all my life all I need say simply is late isn't gentleman lez Dawson thank you thank you. Some a play this place had the audience with me all the way for sure about the clicks and I think if I'm dead think of these plans and you think of the great names that appeared in people like bloody selves up. Jenny Lind of Ripley. She was using it in my good to the end of a stick she's in the book if it thank you if. I thought it was Ok with me she lost one of the sentence in the book you presented a smiley face 5 thank you for. One day one day and. To see the missive missed out here which we must never ever be allowed to forget one 3rd of course is that bottom of. The 1st month it is given that people at times and it led to a function. To dry so one of the songs in here are just a few of. Those a young man from. A. Who is said to chide one day. He was struck to the to live with the sex gorilla I'm 5. And shyness ability a lot if you think if. I want to get. Some funny behind a steak but Senate policy and not going to the v.a. . And the only advice we could get was to look. At this in the last. Evening this would have been to. Maybe be nice if we had a little bit of a farewell 6 weeks ago. You joined me. In the I enjoyed that it was out. Of step with this one of the mothers side by side so please John and. and also I often played to the beginning of his career that's had many different skills even a one to a concert comedian and also of a very good musician you know he loved the bits to do when he played on a tune that was a mob gag Yeah and how many gags him you're a comic so how many Gods do you know that you can keep on repeating telling the same God the same Gaga same guy and still get a big laugh at me now stop so many know an epic is only one I think is only headbutt you can do it and people how I know I do it works I've read song it's unique spectacle Yeah you know and funny cynicism plays a big pot in less conduct but also there's a degree of pomposity and which he punches himself in yes of us a sense of self and mock self-satisfaction he thinks he. Has been missed once he was a success as a comedian and then he stopped a day going in all directions musically and certainly he loved would she leave the end of the you have to stick a them and take them and chew them and down. And find Woods Yeah I love what I. I like the meanings of words and I thought the part of fashion fascinates me where they where they came from and what they mean but left you just the shallow end of the word she loved Neil Ennis how it is not something to write words that are almost a song but I'll answer me as well Your Honor that is the case for the different. Proves he was the musical ear poet enjoys the sound of yeah and it's off the mainstream of getting your point across yeah if you like the way one word answer another and it makes sense as the bonus but it's an added bonus if the words sound good together yeah and they also make sense so I think Les had an ear for that and it's the same kind of way he has an ear for the music and how to really screw it up and I think it's the screwing up in a funny way that people identify with you know the probably the broader philosophy Yeah you know because there we all go in now the door slams on our face you know the Shard Freud of life. Did I say Shelton for what it is. Perhaps or has come to. Let his love of the rhythm of language is presented in a standup monologues and in his writing but it's also illustrated beautifully in our next programme for the b.b.c. Archive and this performance for the b.b.c. Education cassette service were the gig broadcast on Radio 4 in 1900 less Dawson performs alongside the b.b.c. Concert Orchestra telling the Hans Christian Andersen story to be the Chiba. Everybody sat. Up and didn't think so. Toby was a fat lip. When he walked. Out when he told. And when he signed. Well it was the Saudis are you going to. Be Spring is here. Oh no it isn't said to be when the boats begin to pop on the robin takes up. Everybody's Ses It's spring today. I suppose that maybe so but I'd like you to know I could just Elliot spring though. I can overstep the screen when the circus comes to town it makes me want to sing when I bump into what's when the circus magic past and the man goes. I know it's spring it'll come. Back. To fade I'm not jumping to the circus 9 No it's great. Suddenly a happy little idea started buzzing around to be had a chubby Why should you have to wait for the circus every year why don't you join the circus then you'd be with it all the time. What would I do said to me I'm not very talented. Why that's easy to be you could be a bad back writer. I'm 90 I'm a. Clown. A juggler. And I could match. You could be anything you want to be he said to me you know that best idea of a good. Let's go and tell send your peppery the right there. Send your Petrino the great ringmaster twiddle his mustache. Showed him my little of Fatah for the and you would like it to join of the static as a. I have just had the job for. My own if I'm sort of a way that if that's you can to make sure they have enough for water to today. To be picture to pockets full of will work. Well he said and. I suppose this is better than nothing. You know how many books it takes different in jail different. Or more than that. Even more the. Poor tired to be. Well now said the Qandil the elephant I think we've had quite an interesting least for now thank you to me. Innocence on the surface is about to start why don't you check to look you deserve it. To be window to the sickest and. Best of send your pony you know twiddling is a step in flicking with. A design a gentle man yet attention I believe. It was the most wonderful circus to be devastating. The clowns went. To project. The project. To have a day off he went. To magick. Politically magick limited to magick to magick to declare victory would you tell. Him how Bill is Acrobat's when Live t.v. Lot. And then tell me so why did squeak in the chippy go away. I'll lay you. Ali you own pot and run back. To the alley you own alley you own. A job you'd be a sight to see. Well then show it to me what am I waiting for when I go to the top of the circus. All right to be lets see you walk a tight rope. Used to bookies to help balance the place one foot calf you from to the other. Slowly step by step balance across a tight rope. Took me look out. Down . And down came job me. Right sometimes you send your pepper in new. Rides send you a Bentley no ring you get to be Mr Nice you haven't ruined me. Back to me on a frontier with you. To be killed in a power struggle and that is dropped one by one. 2 each to abuse of the candle to the different 2 2 2 things that. You just try to do so and 2 2 that's. What would you say if I told you that a very long time ago I want to be a ballet dancer to be smiled That's better said the elephant that you listen to me . Be yourself you can't beat anybody else. Be yourself is my advice to you ought else your own wisdom be a nobody So be yourself all else 2 2 2. Now so very well said so the only think I do best is. Well said the elephant. That must be so eager. To be began to sing. And before he knew it all the elephants were standing around him in a cell at some swaying to the music. I said the Cat and the elephant I do believe that out of yours just makes me want to dance. The difference in their lives and they started to waltz. Suddenness and you're a prisoner want to. Know what does or the nerve I was seeing the other friends or downs or so on. What is up and. The kind that would put it to being out in a way with a happy smile on his face. Oh it's. Remarkable sensation Dubay I have a wonderful idea how would you and your so graceful and it's like to be the main attack in our set. Ladies and gentlemen I haven't agreed on a job President send your time with his magnificent. Dancing elephants. Be played with the elephants dance. Steps to secure the freedom they're going to under 5. Percent of just honest. I have never played before oh. Oh oh thought. I wouldn't change places with anyone in the whole wide world. Now send your fortissimo who was in charge of a big orchestra got to hear about to be famous last even I said to me that you a bit too John. Before every concert the office too would be busy chewing up no time atoll up and down the scales everyone raced helter skelter. All but to be the tube. It was only ever blowing and puffing away and oh so slowly. Oh what lovely music thoughts of the winds and board were. They was the most acceptance of the critter. To be average Who are you when you race you won't get sued and treated used to playing except me i never gets a prediction never. People don't write pretty choose to choose it just is not. Oh that's the conductor sure if it's a good up to a of his but some of the Highlands they done with a little of the consumed on their strings. And they cried to the flute catch. Tried the flute. My turn to do the trumpet. 2 and the rest joined. The cello. Ergo. The soon. To be just went. Home. To. Catch me teased a little. Don't you tried to be. You're sitting on me trying the little truth. Chubby pics at the flat little to try to squeeze it back into shape. You come here full stop the vine and. I'm so to Miss diffidence had to be. Fiddle What do you mean fiddle by leaders that. Believe these abbesses are by least fiddles and need. To be said Send your fortissimo award do you think you're doing all. Lisa or I thought it would be so nice to dance pretend it's June and instead of going out all the time. Down this left the violence down this well really. And hone quiet to put his hand his mouth and smile. Then the full of. Stuff I said stuff big. Tubby cried send your 40 Simo please I was having rehearsal was over Toby was walking home the people the piccolo please people said to me I just feel so miserable I don't think I went to the company and that's all right I understand said people good night good night said to me to me went to the river and sat down on the log and he looked himself in the water and then suddenly. A big bull frog jumped out of the water and something along right next to me. But to be just sat there where you said the frog if I'm not wanted. Oak lied to me please come back I didn't mean to be rude and back hopped a frog. Oh that's all right I'm used to it though when they that attention to me either really said to be wary of course not every night I sit here and sing my heart out does anyone listen to me of course I don't can you sing us to be can I say listen to our dog or your dog dog the 000-000-0000 extension 0000. 000000000 god or. God order. Oh Ok Oh that's lovely said to me Well why don't you try it said the frogs Oh thank you said to me org. Board war. Born. Or American fighting Numero. You should try that on your altars of Dharm Oh I will said. Goodbye Mr Frank and off went to be as happy as could be th