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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts) Thu Apr 10, 2014, 11:42 PM Apr 2014

The Little World of Don Camillo (BBC Radio)

Don Camillo, have you fallen asleep at the altar?
Me? Of course not! I was praying!
Oh? Who to?
To You, Lord
Funny. I didn't hear anything
I was praying quietly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t1bnm

After WWI, Giovannino Guareschi wrote several hundred short stories featuring two former anti-fascist partisans in a small Italian town, the parish priest don Camillo and the communist town mayor Peppone. The BBC episodes run about 30 minutes

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The Little World of Don Camillo (BBC Radio) (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2014 OP

Oh I love Don Camillo, had no idea they read them or played them. Thank you for this. uppityperson Apr 2014 #1

I think the Don Camillo stories are classics struggle4progress Apr 2014 #2

uppityperson

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1. Oh I love Don Camillo, had no idea they read them or played them. Thank you for this.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Apr 11, 2014, 12:39 AM

Apr 2014

We read them as teenagers, my parents had a couple books. Don Camillo and Pogo made up a fair chunk of their political, and ironic, readings.

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)

2. I think the Don Camillo stories are classics

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 11, 2014, 12:57 AM

Apr 2014

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