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The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
Audiobook4 hours

The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm

Written by Norman Hunter

Narrated by Martin Jarvis

4.5/5

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About this audiobook

Eccentric, absent-minded inventor Professor Branestawm embarks on a series of adventures with his friend Colonel Dedshott. Various machines are invented: a time travel-machine, a device to capture and tie up burglars, and a spring-cleaning machine. Inevitably, something goes wrong and Professor Branestawm is again in a pickle, exasperating his housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop and delighting us.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
Release dateJul 1, 2011
ISBN9781843795261
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm

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  • 4/5
    I remember reading this as a child in the orange and black Penguin edition. I'm not sure why. It must have been something to do with the absurdity of the inventions and the language. Later I picked up a copy of the 75th diamond anniversary published by Red Fox in 2008 and read the chapter about the Professor borrowing a book. His absent-mindedness leads to him borrowing and losing 14 copies of the same book: The life and likings of a lobster. He manages to borrow the book from 14 libraries in Pagwell. This is absurd, of course. Which town has as many as 14 branch libraries today? Suspending my disbelief I read in and was greatly amused by the ending. All the copies were in the Professor's house, classified and placed on different shelves. The first paragraph is very good too, describing the atmosphere of Great Pagwell library" 'Some of the library men were feeding the book worms, others were rubbing out the pencil marks that people aren't supposed to make on books but often do. Others were looking to see if anyone had left anything useful in the books, which they never do, only old bus tickets and things".
  • 4/5
    Professor Branestawm is an absent-minded inventor who has five different pairs of glasses (at the same time) and gets into all sorts of crazy situations. This one didn't do much for me. It seems like a bedtime story that a parent is making up haphazardly as he goes along, without much thought invested and while trying too hard to be silly.
  • 4/5
    I thought these stories were wonderful when I was about 9, and I still do. My favourite story ('The Professor Borrows a Book') will have a special resonance for many on LibraryThing. The professor cannot find the copy of The Life and Likings of a Lobster that he has borrowed from Great Pagwell library, and has to borrow another copy from Little Pagwell library. Then both are overdue, and he can't find either, and has to rush to Upper Pagwell library for a copy to return to the other libraries and then take out again. Eventually, when he is cycling round keeping fourteen libraries going on one copy, the librarians all come to tea, and find all the lost books shelved in different sections of his library ('Lobsters', 'Biographies', 'Natural History', 'Folklore', etc.). Clearly, Professor Branestawm needs LibraryThing!
  • 5/5