Quiet Please - Twelve to Five
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Quiet Please - Twelve to Five

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 8, 202629 min

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Quiet, please.

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by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chapman.

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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The musical broadcasting system presents Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chapman.

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Quiet Please for tonight is called Twelve to Five. Yes, ma'am, it does get lonesome down here. What? Oh, sure, being able to talk to people on the phone helps.

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But how would you like to be stuck away down the basement all by yourself from midnight to 5 g.m.? Would nothing but a microphone, a turntable, and some telephones? But sure, I get coffee. I bring in forth through with jokes from I go on, huh?

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