A huge THANK YOU! This is still my favorite book of all times. First read at the age of 6, I am now 70 years old (!) and there is nothing like it. SO comforting during these mad and scary world events and surreal times.

Used to listen to this every Christmas eve, in the dark, waiting for Father Christmas ❤

I’ve always liked Joanna, but this takes my appreciation to an even higher level again, it’s so well read I simply can’t imagine anybody else reading the story now. Wonderful.

Thank you very much for posting this. I used to listen to this every night when visiting my grandmother’s house. She passed yesterday and I don’t even really know why I searched for it but I’m delighted to have found it and heard it again after nearly two decades.

Takes me riight back to 1968 and the teacher read this book out loud to us. Loved it then. Love it even better now with "Patsy" reading it 💖❣️

So happy you uploaded this as I loved this audio book as a child! So happy to be able to hear it again. Thank you

At the age of 66 and loving dogs I hadn't read this charming story nor seen the film etc.Well,it was worth the wait 😊

Wonderful - I hadn't known Joanna had read this. A treat indeed

I’m absolutely in heaven! What a joy, beautifully read, wonderful voice and accent for this story. This is the first time I’ve heard this as an audiobook, and I’m loving it. Thank you very much for uploading this, I really appreciate it!

Thank you for uploading this 😊

@TheMonkeyGrinder

3 жыл бұрын

No problem :)

@janetwarner2815

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMonkeyGrinder 😊

Takes me back to growing up in Knightsbridge London and going to the Hampshire School Ennismore Gardens 1969 to 1972 Such wonderful times always warms my heart Joanna what a sparkling diamond can listen to her for hours So soothing! 💎😇🙏🌹💖🌹🎉🎊🎡🎢🎠

Thanks for doing this , I had this on cassette tape when I was a kid

Wonderful! Thank you for posting this! I love the original story.

@briancomiskey9824

3 жыл бұрын

Also...this is a condensed version of the book...but that's ok.

@TheMonkeyGrinder

3 жыл бұрын

@@briancomiskey9824 You are right it is an abridged version, I forgot to put that in the description!

@briancomiskey9824

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMonkeyGrinder Eh.. most people won't notice. ;)

❤ Awesome as always thanks

My new favorite bedtime story - thank you ❤

I had this as a wee girl and was so sad I’d never get to hear it again. THANK YOU!!!

Dang Cruella even killed kittens. Dont think it was for the fur. Thats brutal

@hurricanefury439

2 жыл бұрын

that makes the cruella movie even worse

@chantelthomas4774

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah.

Thank you thank you! I had this tape for Christmas 1986. What memories!

Joanna Lumley has the perfect voice for audiobooks.

Please put ABRIDGED in the title so that people know they are missing lots of parts...it is typically stated abridged/unabridged right up front. This is surely the best version ever recorded so thank you for sharing, I wonder why they didn't have Joanna Lumley record the book in full. What a shame but lovely all the same.

@TheMonkeyGrinder

Жыл бұрын

I don't put abridged in the titles because it makes them too long, so you will usually find any publishing/production info in the description under each video. MG

Fun fact: Joanna Lumley’s character Patsy Stone inspired Glenn Close’s take on Cruella de Vil.

Awesome

I listen with pleasure,thanks for evening's treat.

What a wonderful book, and a fabulous narrator! Thank you for posting. Harper (GSD) is listening for the first time :)

🥰 good audiobook.

Why would anyone drink ink? 📜🖋

@davehopkins1970

3 жыл бұрын

Why would anyone make cruella " when 101 dalmatians has been animated and also brought to life by glen close.?..why would Enid blyton get cancelled?why post why comments I?

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

Жыл бұрын

If you drink ink you end up with a nice black mouth and tongue to stick out to all your classmates! Post war Britain.. children made their own fun😂

@mecahhannah

Ай бұрын

Why would someone kill puppies she's crazy!

Thank you so much for uploading. I loved this 30+ years ago and I love it still

I just came here to check for the "expelled for drinking ink". There's actually a reference in the Cruella movie (great, by the way, just not cruel). *Seriously why would you drink ink?!*

@jamessparkman6604

2 жыл бұрын

Now that is the most messed up idea I’ve ever heard

@chantelthomas4774

2 жыл бұрын

Gulp gulp🤦‍♀️🥴🖋️

❤️

Joanna Lumley from The New Avengers and Sapphire & Steel ☺

I like the flipped Canine Human Dynamic

So great❤

I loved it. I wish joanna Lumley could the chalet school and the return of the psammead by helen cresswell

It surprises me how much of the movie was accurate to the book. Yes changes were made to the change in medium but it is still pretty accurate.

@shanryder

2 жыл бұрын

Its strange how accurate the movie is but really weird that the sequel book was entirely ignored when making the sequel movie.

In about a year I'll be using this recording to program my A.I text-to-speech Audiobook reader lol

I love dogs

The staffy was perfectly described 😂

I must say that the original novel Cruella is way more mysterious than the Disney version.

Beautifully narrated, but it's a pity so much of the story is missing. I would have loved an unabridged version.

This woman played one of the evil aunts in James and the giant peach

@Lutomoria

2 жыл бұрын

oh my gosh! That explains why her Cruela voice is so amazing and why she sounds so familiar as well!!

@jamessparkman6604

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lutomoria Here’s another fun fact for you in the movie which this book had inspiration for Jasper and Saul are we named Jasper and Horace

@Lutomoria

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamessparkman6604 Yes indeed!

@jamessparkman6604

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lutomoria If they actually made a TV series based on the 101 dalmatians and stuck to the source material and a dog asked What was that Pongo would be facetious And say to him that that was a calling card from an old friend meaning of Cruella Deville

Brileeont❤

I don't know if I can listen to this if she keeps talking about how she drowns kittens its stuck in my mind now Walt Disney would not be pleased

@xavierstanton8146

Жыл бұрын

Uhhh... You realize this book came first, right? Walt was aware of Cruella bragging about drowning kittens. I'm sorry if you know already, it's just the way your comment was worder made it seem like you thought the movie came first.

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

Жыл бұрын

And drowning kittens and puppies was quite common at the time 🤷 vets rarely did much small animal care,and neutering and spaying I don't think was even able to be done at the time. Just like humans didn't have much available birth control. It's quite pointed in the story how spoiled the parent dogs are, because it was so unusual. Most mongrel dogs and moggie cats were loved and fed and expected to get on with it! Only pedigrees with wealthy owners would consult a vet for a pregnant animal. Read James Herriot!!Unwanted animals were a serious problem, strays can spread disease. Unfortunately a lot of people felt that popping them in a sack with a weight was a quicker death than leaving them to starve or be eaten by something else,or banging them on the head was too distressing. You can't apply the values of today to 60-70 years ago.

Is this the whole audiobook

@TheMonkeyGrinder

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, yes this is the whole recording. Four sides of tape edited together into one.

If we ever get another 101 Dalmatians movie or TV Series I wouldn't mind Mr De Vil Cruella's husband as the main antagonist at least it would be different someone and not the usual Cruella De Vil as much as I enjoy Cruella De Vil as the main antagonist we need a different main antagonist of The 101 Dalmatians series I also wouldn't mind Prince and Missis being added as well as Prince being Pongo's brother and Missis being Perdy's sister Anyone agree?

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

Жыл бұрын

Afraid not! Dody Smith crafted a story that has been loved by millions over several generations. If you want to make changes on that scale you've essentially written another story! Go for it! Just don't call it 101 Dalmatians! It would be your own work so you should christan it yourself. 😁

I mean we knew Cruella was cruel hence her name but sheesh small doses people

1:33:45 the girls are weak. The story ends with cadpig wondering who owned the building she watched the television she liked so much in.

@janetwarner2815

2 жыл бұрын

Girls are never weak . I think they were they were the ones who pulled the cadpigs cart

@coor0kun

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, some clear sexism in the writing unfortunately.