There's a couple of days left on BBC Radio 7's 'listen again' facility 
to catch Mr William Russell reading his novella, Shirley Valentine. 
Shirley's monologues addressed to her kitchen wall as she prepares those 
great English culinary delights, chips and egg or chips and fish, are 
hilarious.

"Marriage? It's like the middle east. There's no solution. You just hope 
that the curfew and ceasefire is observed and keep your head down."

"Sex? It's like shopping in Sainsbury. An hour of pushing and shoving 
and nothing much to show at the end."

Shirley lands a job in Greek restaurant in Greece and tempts uneasy 
English tourists by cooking them surreptitious dishes of chips and fish 
or chips and egg.

An entertaining 90-minutes.

NB: Note cross post to uk.misc
-- 
James Follett.

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:56:55 +0100, james 
wrote:

>There's a couple of days left on BBC Radio 7's 'listen again' facility 
>to catch Mr William Russell reading his novella, Shirley Valentine. 
>Shirley's monologues addressed to her kitchen wall as she prepares those 
>great English culinary delights, chips and egg or chips and fish, are 
>hilarious.
>
>"Marriage? It's like the middle east. There's no solution. You just hope 
>that the curfew and ceasefire is observed and keep your head down."
>
>"Sex? It's like shopping in Sainsbury. An hour of pushing and shoving 
>and nothing much to show at the end."
>
>Shirley lands a job in Greek restaurant in Greece and tempts uneasy 
>English tourists by cooking them surreptitious dishes of chips and fish 
>or chips and egg.
>
>An entertaining 90-minutes.

Thanks for that.
Just nipped across to download it from the iplayer.
Appreciate the heads-up.