Meeting of Friday 19 June: Humorous readings by members

A quite well attended meeting was entertained by items of humorous prose or verse chosen and read by members. Nearly all those attending had a five minute contribution to share, and judging by the amount of laughter, the excerpts were well chosen. Among the prose authors featuring were P G Wodehouse, in an excerpt from an Ukridge book. P G Wodehouse also appeared later in a pastiche of a "Jeeves" story by Sebastian Faulks in the style of Raymond Chandler, first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 "Write Stuff" literary quiz. Daisy Ashford's "The Young Visiters" featured, as did work in verse by Joyce Grenfell, Dylan Thomas, Edward Lear and Hilaire Belloc. About sixteen members contributed, with some providing two short contributions rather than a single longer one. Particularly memorable was the Chairman's contribution, an extract from Frank McCourt's autobiographical account of his introduction to teaching in a tough New York school, from his book "Teacher Man"