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Ladies and Gentleman By Max Walker and Mike McColl Jones

From Max Walker, one of Australia’s most highly treasured speakers, and Mike McColl Jones, a writer with television, come Ladies and Gentlemen, a book of amusing stories and anecdotes from a lifetime behind the microphone and camera.

Hear are tales of glory and folly on and off the stage, f things that can – and did! –  go wrong, even for the most professional and well prepared of speakers.  Along the way Max offers hints and little tricks of the trade for presenting speeches at birthdays, parties and funerals, and for getting out of sticky situations and maintaining your sense of humour when things go wrong.   Ladies and Gentlemen … a book that will have you laughing, and grateful for the next time you are asked to ‘say a few words’ at someone’s wedding, party, anything …