Welcome

Please explore these pages to read and hear some of the poems, humour and words: live, recorded and on the printed page… with some inevitable musical intrusions!

Video feature – ‘The Man On The Plane’

Sharing a tale with a live audience about a flight in the USA.


Audio clips

These samples of live humour are taken from shows by Simon Mayor & Hilary James or with The Mandolinquents.

     Hear the full sequence

     The Parrot Joke
     The Parrot Song
     Deliverance
     Bird Noises
     The man on the plane
     The Russian
     Pizzicato
(all voices and instruments – Simon Mayor & Hilary James.
‘Pizzicato’ performed live by Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents)

Of Death And A Banana Skin

Of Death And A Banana Skin

Poetry, other words and AR illustrations: Simon Mayor’s first anthology of poems and anecdotes lavishly illustrated by Hilary James, and featuring Augmented Reality.

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‘Uplifting… Made me laugh a lot… philosophy thrown in as well… magic… this is the start of something big…’
Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3