Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Reading excerpts from 'The Cocktail Party' aka 'The Name-Droppers' by Paul Jennings (1918-1987), originally published in _Punch_ (v.252 p. 306, 1967) and collected in _I Must Have Imagined It_ (1977) and _The Paul Jennings Reader_ (1990).

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