Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off: Egypt (Episode 4, Series 2)
Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby Audio Book

Welcome back Giles Wemmbley Hogg 2m's, 2g's - Marcus Brigstocke's classic character. Traveller, backpacker, ethnologist, fearless investigator of cultural diversity, connoisseur of all Eastern and Mystic philosophies and upper middle-class student ponce from Budleigh SaltertonNow a student at the Universities of both Bristol and Durham, (due to a bit of a slip on his UCAS form) Giles is no longer a callow youth from Budleigh Salterton, but a thoroughgoing cultured man of the world. Why? Because 'Travel' is his middle name (between St John and Leonard). He experiences Tanzania, New Zealand, Cuba, Egypt, India and Germany - and becomes the first man ever to have to be literally cut out of a pair of lederhosen. In Cuba.In this, the fourth episode, Giles travels to the land of my pharaohs, on a top-level mission to offer Cairo the once-in-a-lifetime chance to be twinned with East Devon's third prettiest coastal town. Along the way, he unleashes a deadly Pharaoh's curse, hears the tale of the legendary one they call Pe-ter U-stin-ov and tries to find the place were Cleopatra killed herself with a wasp. All this, plus a tombola, some hummus and a 2000psi water cannon'Not since I first heard Alan (Partridge) have I felt so sure that I was in the presence of an immortal' - The Sunday Telegraph'Consistently funny and elegantly produced' - Mail On Sunday'Hilarious spoof' - Time Out