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S4 Ep40: Shaun Usher, curator of correspondence

In Writing with Hattie Crisell

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The Greatest Complaint Letter Ever Written

There are so many collections of letters already out there. What we're always looking for is the crowd pleases it's the letters that just make the audience cry with laughter. E, i think ters did w use that complaint letter to richard branson, yes. Ander, i don't disagree. It was written by a guy called oliver beale after he'd had a virgin airway's flight. And when you put it in his hands and put him on the stage in the albert hall, it just really comes to life. And there's nothing funnier. There's john cheever, the novelist. He adopted a cat from one of his friends, and

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