General Information
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 Title:                  Ancestral Vices
 Author:                 Tom Sharpe
 Read By:                Griff Rhys Jones
 Copyright:              1980
 Audiobook Copyright:    1992
 Genre:                  Humour
 Publisher:              Chivers Audio Books
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Media:                  Tape
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Used file #9 has diferent sound level
                               minor wow + flutter nr end #8
File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         16
 Total Duration:         8:51:48
 Total MP3 Size:         243.51 MB
 Parity Archive:         No
 Ripped By:              Nemo
 Ripped With:            Audiolab
 Encoded With:           FhG
 Encoded At:             CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1

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Book Description
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Ancestral Vices
Tom Sharpe, Griff Rhys Jones (Narrator) 
1980
Audio Cassette (March 1992) 
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books; ISBN: 0745162711
10hrs 30min

It is the proud claim of the Petrefacts that theirs is one of the oldest 
and most obscure families in England. They have kept their heads by 
not raising them above the Vale of Bushampton. Even Samuel Petrefact's 
enormous success as an industrialist in the nineteenth century and the 
ostentation of his Edwardian successors did not break entirely with 
this tradition. But the elevation of Ronald Osprey Petrefact to the 
peerage suddenly threatens that obscurity; when, to annoy his relatives 
(and to serve other more commercial ends), Lord Petrefact engages Walden 
Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at KIoone University, to write 
the family history, his relatives are up in arms. The guardian of the 
Petrefact tradition, Miss Emmelia, musters the family eccentrics to 
meet the threat -only to discover that Frederick, her disinherited nephew, 
has put more than the family name in jeopardy. Walden Yapp too has problems, 
of a sexual nature, as much at variance with his puritanical and political 
upbringing as Lord Petrefact is with the rest of his relatives. Yapp's 
search for the truth leads him from the intricacies of Victorian domestic 
plumbing through the arms of his witless landlady into those of the 
police - and out again.
This insensitive and deeply perceptive novel reveals the common heritage 
which has bound English society in fragments through the centuries.
(Taken from the UK 1st edition, Secker & Warburg 1980)

Tom Sharpe    
    
Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke 
College, Cambridge. He did his National Service in the Marines before 
going to South Africa in 1951, where he worked for the Non-European 
Affairs Department before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio 
in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, when he was deported. From 
1963 to 1972 he was a Lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of 
Arts and Technology. He is married and lives in Dorset.  

Griff Rhys Jones
Actor comedian from 'Not the 9 o'clock News'
Stage ... Charley's Aunt + Alchemist
TV Alas Smith & Jones, The Young Ones, Porterhouse Blue
Film ... Morons from Outer Space

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