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Book at Bedtime - A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Episode 5

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Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal. Forced to take refuge in a roadside inn, Yorick is forced to share a bedroom with a stranger and her maid. The precautions for managing such a situation border on the Baroque. Abriged by Robin Brooks. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.