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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.

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Guide Cats for the Blind: Songs & Poems of Les Barker

Guide Cats for the Blind (Osmosys OSMO CD 020/021)

Guide Cats for the Blind
Songs & Poems of Les Barker
Various Artists

Osmosys OSMO CD 020/021 (2 CD, UK, September 2003)

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Tracks

CD 1

  1. Les Barker: Guide Cats for the Blind (4.13)
  2. Ken Bruce: Across the Plains of Africa (1.42)
  3. Mike Harding: The Curse of the House of the Baskervilles (5.52)
    from Mrs Ackroyd Superstar
  4. Ned Sherrin: Stamped Addressed Antelope (1.15)
  5. Sarah Kennedy: Sprouts (1.23)
  6. Sir Jimmy Young: Reg the Vegetable Gardener (1.34)
  7. Bill Caddick: Custard Creams (3.49)
    from Tubular Dogs
  8. Gerard McDermott: Waste Not, Want Not (3.10)
  9. Brian Perkins: Shipping Forecast (1.39)
  10. Sally Boazman: Crawl of the Light Brigade (2.33)
  11. Johnnie Walker: The Man Next Door’s a Burglar (1.08)
  12. June Tabor: Git a Long Little Dogie (2.50)
    from Tubular Dogs
  13. Heinz Wolff: Administerium and the Science of Unclear Physics (4.23)
  14. Nonny James: Nobody Hugs a Hedgehog (1.30)
  15. Allan Beswick: Jehovah’s Witness at the Door (5.25)
  16. Ryan Kelly: Blessed Are the Meek (1.59)
  17. Cyril Tawney: Sammy’s Bar Revisited (2.41)
  18. Nicholas Parsons: Amnesia (3.11)
  19. Paul Gambaccini: The Last But One of the Mohicans (1.33)
  20. Dave Cash + Five Guide Cats of Arijaba: Detritus / Tu Haiku (4.16)

CD 2

  1. Sic Transit: Sidney (2.50)
  2. Terry Wogan: Have You Got Any News of the Iceberg? (2.03)
  3. Nonny James: Spot of the Antarctic (3.11)
  4. Roy Hudd: An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables (2.01)
  5. Bernard Wrigley: The Man Who Was Eaten By His Own Bum (3.38)
  6. Charlotte Green: VoiceMail (1.47)
  7. Billy Butler: It Was the Surprise More Than Anything (1.59)
  8. Martin Carthy: Hard Cheese of Old England (2.53)
    from Oranges and Lemmings
  9. Peter White: I Can’t Find My Camouflage Net (1.05)
  10. Dave Cash: Detritus (2.37)
  11. Brian Matthew: The Dog Formerly Known as Prince (0.35)
  12. Galliard: The Unigate Milkman (3.52)
  13. Trevor Peacock: Captain Indecisive (3.40)
  14. Roger Lloyd Pack: One Legged Horse (2.35)
  15. Cyril Tawney: Lassie Free and Easy (2.40)
  16. Ian MacMillan: Ancient Mariner.Com (2.12)
  17. Nicky Campbell: The Phoenix (1.30)
  18. Genevieve Tudor: Everything Glows (2.40)
  19. Mark and Lard: Jason and the Arguments (4.40)
  20. 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

Missing Persians File: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 2 (Osmosys OSMO CD 032)

Missing Persians File
Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 2
Songs & Poems of Les Barker
Various Artists

Osmosys OSMO CD 032 (CD, UK, 2005)

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Tracks

  1. John Humphrys: The Stealth Comma (1.55)
  2. Joss Ackland: If (1.49)
  3. Harvey Andrews & John Shepherd: Missing Persians File (2.49)
  4. Prunella Scales: A Crufts Conversation (1.56)
  5. Les Barker: Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife Thrower (4.15)
  6. Emma Chambers: I Don’t Like My Boomerang (2.08)
  7. Tom Paxton: Will the Turtle Be Unbroken (4.25)
  8. Timothy West & Prunella Scales: My Snails Have Not Yet Arrived (2.44)
  9. Jeremy Vine: Napoleon’s Circular Retreat from Reading (2.49)
  10. Nonny James: Lorna the Library Book Burglar (2.40)
  11. Genevieve Tudor: Travel Iron (2.10)
  12. Ed Stewart: Spot Was Not Like the Rest (1.30)
  13. Steve Tilston: Dipsticks & Seals (5.24)
  14. Frank Hennessy: Death by Daffodils (3.02)
  15. Ryan Kelly: Self Knowledge (1.17)
  16. Roger Lloyd Pack: Non Sequitors (1.51)
  17. Rodney Bewes: One-Way Cul-de-Sac (1.41)
  18. Sic Transit: The King of Rome (2.21)
  19. Desmond Carrington: The Undead Parrot (3.03)
  20. Gerard McDermott: King Harold Was a Ventriloquist (3.59)
  21. Trevor Peacock: A Very English Thing (2.56)
  22. 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

Top Cat, White Tie & Tails: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 3 (Osmosys OSMO CD 041)

Top Cat, White Tie & Tails
Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 3
Songs & Poems of Les Barker
Various Artists

Osmosys OSMO CD 041 (CD, UK, 2007)

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Tracks

  1. Dave Cash: The Franco-Prussian War of the Spanish Succession (3.57)
  2. Nonny James: Top Cat, White Tie and Tails (2.18)
  3. Roger Lloyd Pack: Knot (3.01)
  4. Joss Ackland: An Admission (1.28)
  5. Robert Lindsay: The Mask of Mono (2.27)
  6. Les Barker: The Church of the Wholly Undecided (3.57)
  7. Jenny Agutter: Bungee Jumping for Lemmings (1.29)
  8. Tim Brooke-Taylor: Mute Swan (0.12)
  9. Edward de Souza: Disaster at Sea (0.43)
  10. Prunella Scales: No May (1.26)
  11. Trevor Peacock: Inconsonants (3.24)
  12. Tony Hawks: I Used to Be a Singer in a Rock Band (1.16)
  13. Tessa Peake-Jones: Acupuncture (2.05)
  14. Tim Brooke-Taylor: The Author’s Story (2.46)
  15. Andrew Sachs: On Performing Poetry (0.06)
  16. Jenny Agutter: Garden Waste (2.55)
  17. Michael Cochrane: Home Improvement (1.40)
  18. Peter Donaldson: My Phone’s Out of Order (2.39)
  19. Judi Spiers: Go Stay and Fetch (1.33)
  20. Andrew Sachs: Leonardo Da Thingy (3.06)
  21. Ken Bruce: MacPherson’s Lament (0.59)
  22. Norma Dixit: Reg Was a Lonely Glow Worm (2.36)
  23. Gerard McDermott: The Y Files (3.35)
  24. Joss Ackland: Oh Lord When I Die (2.21)
  25. Christopher Cazenove: Chronology (2.25)
  26. Clare Balding and Jimmy McGrath: The Charge of the Late Brigade (1.44)
  27. 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

Cat Nav: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 4 (Osmosys OSMO CD 050/051)

Cat Nav
Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 4
Songs & Poems of Les Barker
Various Artists

Osmosys OSMO CD 050/051 (2 CD, UK, 2009)

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Tracks

CD 1

  1. Nik Kershaw: What Is (3.17)
  2. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams: The Lost Elephants of Denbigh (1.50)
  3. John Benns with Fairport Convention feat. Wurzel: Quasi B Goode (3.31)
    from Where Would You Rather Be Tonight?
  4. Mikey Hughes: Non Stick Pan (1.43)
  5. The Mrs Ackroyd Band: Hip Hop Hamlet (3.01)
  6. Roger Lloyd Pack: Fishing for Sheep (1.30)
  7. Keith Donnelly: Cat Nav (2.53)
  8. Bob Harris: The Nine Banded Armadillo (1.08)
  9. The Austin Lounge Lizards: Arnold (4.23)
  10. James Naughtie: Apocalypse Yesterday (1.18)
  11. Nonny James: Send in the Cones (2.44)
  12. Norma Dixit: A Faulty Stereo (2.16)
  13. Simon Mayor and Hilary James: She Moved Through the Fair (3.53)
  14. Gary O’Donoghue: Who Can You Ask When You’re God? (0.59)
  15. Sniff Patrol: Dachshunds With Erections (2.26)
  16. Barry Farrimond: Us Goldfish (2.47)
  17. Jez Lowe: You Won’t Like Tom Jones (2.53)
  18. Shirley Henderson: The Lonely Little Lemming (1.54)
  19. Edward de Souza: Absent Friends (1.04)
  20. Richard Briers: Flat Earth (0.16)
  21. Jill Grant and Alan Berry: Hunting the Cutty Wren (4.06)
  22. Bernard Wrigley: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Beef Dripping (2.27)
  23. Ken Galipeau: I Can’t Find My Invisibility Cloak (4.08)
  24. Jeremy Taylor: Shi Tsu (2.55)
  25. George Hamilton IV: A Bunch of Mimes (3.51)

CD 2

  1. Chumbawamba: I Drive a Four By Four Four Door Fortress (3.35)
  2. Alan Titchmarsh: Mid Life Crocus (1.12)
  3. Reg Webd: You’ll Never Get to New Orleans (4.13)
  4. Les Barker: Sex Is Better Than Poetry (5.48)
  5. Dave Cash: The Verb to Be (4.34)
  6. Bernard Cribbins: Odd Socks (1.48)
  7. The King’s Singers: Auntie Beryl’s New PC (3.37)
  8. Richard Briers: Why Don’t They Write It on the Side? (2.43)
  9. The Haley Sisters feat. Ric Sanders: Roseville Fair (3.20)
  10. Shep Wooley: The Ballad of Cosmo McGrew (5.38)
  11. Isla St Clair: The De’il’s Awa’ Wi’ the Exercise Bike (1.06)
  12. Charles Collingwood: Je Ne Sais Quoi (1.34)
  13. Norma Waterson: My Husband’s Got No Porridge in Him (3.44)
    from Gnus and Roses
  14. Susan Jameson: The Duvet Cover (2.37)
  15. Louis de Berniere with Tom Bliss: Hedgehogs (2.03)
  16. Sian Phillips: Seeing Is Retrieving (0.59)
  17. Wheeler Street feat. Roy Bailey: Ben Kenobi (3.02)
  18. Edward de Souza: Cosmo, Prince of Denmark (3.21)
  19. 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

Herding Cats: Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 5 (Osmosys OSMO CD 055/056)

Herding Cats
Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 5
Songs & Poems of Les Barker
Various Artists

Osmosys OSMO CD 055/056 (2 CD, UK, 2011)

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Tracks

CD 1

  1. Skuffle: Tortoise From Hell (3.46)
  2. Julia Hills: Herding Cats (2.27)
  3. Les Barker: The Inflatable Boy (2.18)
  4. John Conolly: Fiddlers’ Greenberg (3.11)
  5. Bernard Cribbins: Eeyore’s Speech from Piglet (4.46)
  6. Nonny James: Have You Got Any News of the Iceberg? (2.47)
  7. Bob Williamson: Kippers for Tea (3.14)
  8. Jon Briggs: Weakest Link (1.56)
  9. Linda Bellingham: Why Don’t They Write It on the Side? (3.40)
  10. June Tabor: The January June (2.31)
    from Gnus and Roses
  11. James Bolam: The Atheist and the Bear (1.41)
  12. Gaynor Faye: I’ve Been Hiding My Light Under a Bushel (1.20)
  13. Mrs Ackroyd Band: O Sole Mio (4.08)
  14. Eric Allen: I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (1.48)
  15. Toyah Willcox: Pearl (2.46)
  16. John Scott Cree: Rolls Royce Blues (3.13)

CD 2

  1. The Mrs Ackroyd Band: Llanfair­pwll­gwyngyll­gogerychwyrnd­robwllllanti­sili­ogogogoch (3.24)
    from Oranges and Lemmings
  2. Elaine C Smith: Runner Up, the Wonder Horse (1.32)
  3. Jeremy Irons: Scott of East Acton (4.31)
  4. Tom Bliss: Van Gogh (3.06)
  5. Sue Jameson: Procrastination (1.11)
  6. Alex Lester: Henry V (3.35)
  7. Ken Galipeau: No One Wants to Meet a Skunk (2.45)
  8. Jon Briggs: The Surveyor (1.13)
  9. Cindy Kent: Seven Deadly Sins (3.56)
  10. John Scott Cree: Slow Feet Blues (2.48)
  11. Norma Dixit: Why Do Cafes Close at Teatime? (2.03)
  12. Michael Palin: The Man Who Is Everywhere Else (2.38)
  13. Eileen McGann: I Live Not Near the Louvre (3.12)
  14. Ann Widdecombe: Upwards (1.00)
  15. Jon Briggs: Dave (0.42)
  16. John Tams with Coope Boyes & Simpson: On and On (4.39)
  17. Edward de Souza: Mange Tout (1.59)