> Les Barker & the Mrs Ackroyd Band > Records > Guide Cats for the Blind: Songs & Poems of Les Barker
Guide Cats for the Blind: Songs & Poems of Les Barker
This is a series of charity CDs of songs and poems of Les Barker to the benefit of The British Computer Association of the Blind.
> Les Barker & the Mrs Ackroyd Band > Records > Guide Cats for the Blind: Songs & Poems of Les Barker
Guide Cats for the Blind: Songs & Poems of Les Barker
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   Guide Cats for the Blind Osmosys OSMO CD 020/021 (2 CD, UK, September 2003)  | 
Tracks
CD 1
- Les Barker: Guide Cats for the Blind (4.13)
 - Ken Bruce: Across the Plains of Africa (1.42)
 - Mike Harding: The Curse of the House of the Baskervilles
     (5.52)
     
from Mrs Ackroyd Superstar - Ned Sherrin: Stamped Addressed Antelope (1.15)
 - Sarah Kennedy: Sprouts (1.23)
 - Sir Jimmy Young: Reg the Vegetable Gardener (1.34)
 - Bill Caddick: Custard Creams
     (3.49)
     
from Tubular Dogs - Gerard McDermott: Waste Not, Want Not (3.10)
 - Brian Perkins: Shipping Forecast (1.39)
 - Sally Boazman: Crawl of the Light Brigade (2.33)
 - Johnnie Walker: The Man Next Door’s a Burglar (1.08)
 - June Tabor: Git a Long Little Dogie
     (2.50)
     
from Tubular Dogs - Heinz Wolff: Administerium and the Science of Unclear Physics (4.23)
 - Nonny James: Nobody Hugs a Hedgehog (1.30)
 - Allan Beswick: Jehovah’s Witness at the Door (5.25)
 - Ryan Kelly: Blessed Are the Meek (1.59)
 - Cyril Tawney: Sammy’s Bar Revisited (2.41)
 - Nicholas Parsons: Amnesia (3.11)
 - Paul Gambaccini: The Last But One of the Mohicans (1.33)
 - Dave Cash + Five Guide Cats of Arijaba: Detritus / Tu Haiku (4.16)
 
CD 2
- Sic Transit: Sidney (2.50)
 - Terry Wogan: Have You Got Any News of the Iceberg? (2.03)
 - Nonny James: Spot of the Antarctic (3.11)
 - Roy Hudd: An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables (2.01)
 - Bernard Wrigley: The Man Who Was Eaten By His Own Bum (3.38)
 - Charlotte Green: VoiceMail (1.47)
 - Billy Butler: It Was the Surprise More Than Anything (1.59)
 - Martin Carthy: Hard Cheese of Old England
     (2.53)
     
from Oranges and Lemmings - Peter White: I Can’t Find My Camouflage Net (1.05)
 - Dave Cash: Detritus (2.37)
 - Brian Matthew: The Dog Formerly Known as Prince (0.35)
 - Galliard: The Unigate Milkman (3.52)
 - Trevor Peacock: Captain Indecisive (3.40)
 - Roger Lloyd Pack: One Legged Horse (2.35)
 - Cyril Tawney: Lassie Free and Easy (2.40)
 - Ian MacMillan: Ancient Mariner.Com (2.12)
 - Nicky Campbell: The Phoenix (1.30)
 - Genevieve Tudor: Everything Glows (2.40)
 - Mark and Lard: Jason and the Arguments (4.40)
 - Les Barker: Déjà Vu (4.31)
 
All tracks Les Barker except
Tracks 8, 20 Les Barker, Lever;
Track 21 Les Barker, Thompson;
Track 25 Les Barker, Bernard Wrigley;
Track 38 Les Barker, Cole Porter
> Les Barker & the Mrs Ackroyd Band > Records > Missing Persians File: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 2
Missing Persians File: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 2
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   Missing Persians File Osmosys OSMO CD 032 (CD, UK, 2005)  | 
Tracks
- John Humphrys: The Stealth Comma (1.55)
 - Joss Ackland: If (1.49)
 - Harvey Andrews & John Shepherd: Missing Persians File (2.49)
 - Prunella Scales: A Crufts Conversation (1.56)
 - Les Barker: Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife Thrower (4.15)
 - Emma Chambers: I Don’t Like My Boomerang (2.08)
 - Tom Paxton: Will the Turtle Be Unbroken (4.25)
 - Timothy West & Prunella Scales: My Snails Have Not Yet Arrived (2.44)
 - Jeremy Vine: Napoleon’s Circular Retreat From Reading (2.49)
 - Nonny James: Lorna the Library Book Burglar (2.40)
 - Genevieve Tudor: Travel Iron (2.10)
 - Ed Stewart: Spot Was Not Like the Rest (1.30)
 - Steve Tilston: Dipsticks & Seals (5.24)
 - Frank Hennessy: Death by Daffodils (3.02)
 - Ryan Kelly: Self Knowledge (1.17)
 - Roger Lloyd Pack: Non Sequitors (1.51)
 - Rodney Bewes: One-Way Cul-de-Sac (1.41)
 - Sic Transit: The King of Rome (2.21)
 - Desmond Carrington: The Undead Parrot (3.03)
 - Gerard McDermott: King Harold Was a Ventriloquist (3.59)
 - Trevor Peacock: A Very English Thing (2.56)
 - The Mrs Ackroyd Band: The Lemmings Reunion (4.33)
 
> Les Barker & the Mrs Ackroyd Band > Records > Top Cat, White Tie & Tails: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 3
Top Cat, White Tie & Tails: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 3
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   Top Cat, White Tie & Tails Osmosys OSMO CD 041 (CD, UK, 2007)  | 
Tracks
- Dave Cash: The Franco-Prussian War of the Spanish Succession (3.57)
 - Nonny James: Top Cat, White Tie and Tails (2.18)
 - Roger Lloyd Pack: Knot (3.01)
 - Joss Ackland: An Admission (1.28)
 - Robert Lindsay: The Mask of Mono (2.27)
 - Les Barker: The Church of the Wholly Undecided (3.57)
 - Jenny Agutter: Bungee Jumping for Lemmings (1.29)
 - Tim Brooke-Taylor: Mute Swan (0.12)
 - Edward de Souza: Disaster at Sea (0.43)
 - Prunella Scales: No May (1.26)
 - Trevor Peacock: Inconsonants (3.24)
 - Tony Hawks: I Used to Be a Singer in a Rock Band (1.16)
 - Tessa Peake-Jones: Acupuncture (2.05)
 - Tim Brooke-Taylor: The Author’s Story (2.46)
 - Andrew Sachs: On Performing Poetry (0.06)
 - Jenny Agutter: Garden Waste (2.55)
 - Michael Cochrane: Home Improvement (1.40)
 - Peter Donaldson: My Phone’s Out of Order (2.39)
 - Judi Spiers: Go Stay and Fetch (1.33)
 - Andrew Sachs: Leonardo Da Thingy (3.06)
 - Ken Bruce: MacPherson’s Lament (0.59)
 - Norma Dixit: Reg Was a Lonely Glow Worm (2.36)
 - Gerard McDermott: The Y Files (3.35)
 - Joss Ackland: Oh Lord When I Die (2.21)
 - Christopher Cazenove: Chronology (2.25)
 - Clare Balding and Jimmy McGrath: The Charge of the Late Brigade (1.44)
 - Edward de Souza: The Secret (0.11)
 
> Les Barker & the Mrs Ackroyd Band > Records > Cat Nav: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 4
Cat Nav: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 4
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   Cat Nav Osmosys OSMO CD 050/051 (2 CD, UK, 2009)  | 
Tracks
CD 1
- Nik Kershaw: What Is (3.17)
 - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams: The Lost Elephants of Denbigh (1.50)
 - John Benns with Fairport Convention feat. Wurzel: Quasi B Goode
     (3.31)
     
from Where Would You Rather Be Tonight? - Mikey Hughes: Non Stick Pan (1.43)
 - The Mrs Ackroyd Band: Hip Hop Hamlet (3.01)
 - Roger Lloyd Pack: Fishing for Sheep (1.30)
 - Keith Donnelly: Cat Nav (2.53)
 - Bob Harris: The Nine Banded Armadillo (1.08)
 - The Austin Lounge Lizards: Arnold (4.23)
 - James Naughtie: Apocalypse Yesterday (1.18)
 - Nonny James: Send in the Cones (2.44)
 - Norma Dixit: A Faulty Stereo (2.16)
 - Simon Mayor and Hilary James: She Moved Through the Fair (3.53)
 - Gary O’Donoghue: Who Can You Ask When You’re God? (0.59)
 - Sniff Patrol: Dachshunds With Erections (2.26)
 - Barry Farrimond: Us Goldfish (2.47)
 - Jez Lowe: You Won’t Like Tom Jones (2.53)
 - Shirley Henderson: The Lonely Little Lemming (1.54)
 - Edward de Souza: Absent Friends (1.04)
 - Richard Briers: Flat Earth (0.16)
 - Jill Grant and Alan Berry: Hunting the Cutty Wren (4.06)
 - Bernard Wrigley: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Beef Dripping (2.27)
 - Ken Galipeau: I Can’t Find My Invisibility Cloak (4.08)
 - Jeremy Taylor: Shi Tsu (2.55)
 - George Hamilton IV: A Bunch of Mimes (3.51)
 
CD 2
- Chumbawamba: I Drive a Four By Four Four Door Fortress (3.35)
 - Alan Titchmarsh: Mid Life Crocus (1.12)
 - Reg Webd: You’ll Never Get to New Orleans (4.13)
 - Les Barker: Sex Is Better Than Poetry (5.48)
 - Dave Cash: The Verb to Be (4.34)
 - Bernard Cribbins: Odd Socks (1.48)
 - The King’s Singers: Auntie Beryl’s New PC (3.37)
 - Richard Briers: Why Don’t They Write It on the Side? (2.43)
 - The Haley Sisters feat. Ric Sanders: Roseville Fair (3.20)
 - Shep Wooley: The Ballad of Cosmo McGrew (5.38)
 - Isla St Clair: The De’il’s Awa’ Wi’ the Exercise Bike (1.06)
 - Charles Collingwood: Je Ne Sais Quoi (1.34)
 - Norma Waterson: My Husband’s Got No Porridge in Him
     (3.44)
     
from Gnus and Roses - Susan Jameson: The Duvet Cover (2.37)
 - Louis de Berniere with Tom Bliss: Hedgehogs (2.03)
 - Sian Phillips: Seeing Is Retrieving (0.59)
 - Wheeler Street feat. Roy Bailey: Ben Kenobi (3.02)
 - Edward de Souza: Cosmo, Prince of Denmark (3.21)
 - Dan and Gene: Sloop John A (6.00)
 
> Les Barker & the Mrs Ackroyd Band > Records > Herding Cats: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 5
Herding Cats: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 5
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   Herding Cats Osmosys OSMO CD 055/056 (2 CD, UK, 2011)  | 
Tracks
CD 1
- Skuffle: Tortoise From Hell (3.46)
 - Julia Hills: Herding Cats (2.27)
 - Les Barker: The Inflatable Boy (2.18)
 - John Conolly: Fiddlers’ Greenberg (3.11)
 - Bernard Cribbins: Eeyore’s Speech From Piglet (4.46)
 - Nonny James: Have You Got Any News of the Iceberg? (2.47)
 - Bob Williamson: Kippers for Tea (3.14)
 - Jon Briggs: Weakest Link (1.56)
 - Linda Bellingham: Why Don’t They Write It on the Side? (3.40)
 - June Tabor: The January June
     (2.31)
     
from Gnus and Roses - James Bolam: The Atheist and the Bear (1.41)
 - Gaynor Faye: I’ve Been Hiding My Light Under a Bushel (1.20)
 - Mrs Ackroyd Band: O Sole Mio (4.08)
 - Eric Allen: I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (1.48)
 - Toyah Willcox: Pearl (2.46)
 - John Scott Cree: Rolls Royce Blues (3.13)
 
CD 2
- The Mrs Ackroyd Band: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch
     (3.24)
     
from Oranges and Lemmings - Elaine C Smith: Runner Up, the Wonder Horse (1.32)
 - Jeremy Irons: Scott of East Acton (4.31)
 - Tom Bliss: Van Gogh (3.06)
 - Sue Jameson: Procrastination (1.11)
 - Alex Lester: Henry V (3.35)
 - Ken Galipeau: No One Wants to Meet a Skunk (2.45)
 - Jon Briggs: The Surveyor (1.13)
 - Cindy Kent: Seven Deadly Sins (3.56)
 - John Scott Cree: Slow Feet Blues (2.48)
 - Norma Dixit: Why Do Cafes Close at Teatime? (2.03)
 - Michael Palin: The Man Who Is Everywhere Else (2.38)
 - Eileen McGann: I Live Not Near the Louvre (3.12)
 - Ann Widdecombe: Upwards (1.00)
 - Jon Briggs: Dave (0.42)
 - John Tams with Coope Boyes & Simpson: On and On (4.39)
 - Edward de Souza: Mange Tout (1.59)
 




