Skios (Unabridged)
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £12.99
Publisher Description
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand. So is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser.
Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, who has characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper, and his sense of reality - everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science...
Customer Reviews
Skios
Jarvis does it again! He brilliantly turns a contrived farce - Tom Sharpe out of Wodehouse - into 7 hours of joy with wonderful characterisation and delivery. Just what I needed to help flu recovery . So good I set the playback timer into 15 sections so that if I fell asleep it would be easy to find where I was. Better
than his William and Jeeves which is saying something because they are so good. I don't know how he does it but long may Jarvis Ayres Productions thrive!!
Professor
Great story full of humour. Couldn't stop listening.