title: McLevy, The Collected Editions: Part One Pilot, S1-2: Nine BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramas Including the Pilot Episode
author:  David Ashton 
description: "It was consistently above the run of any mill. You could smell the fish, the whores and the cordite. This was everything afternoon radio was invented for." - Euan Ferguson - The Guardian
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  **CHAPTER ONE**
  
   **THE HOUSE THAT**
  
  HUGH LAURIE BUILT
  
  An Unauthorized Biography and Episode Guide PAUL CHALLEN
  
  ECW Press
  
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  Copyright © Paul Challen, 2007
  
  Published by ecw press
  
  2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, Canada m4e 1e2
  
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  library and archives canada cataloguing in publication Challen, Paul, 1967–
  
  The House that Hugh Laurie built :
  
  an unauthorized biography and episode guide / Paul Challen.
  
  isbn 978-1-55022-803-8
  
  1\. Laurie, Hugh, b1959–. 2. House (Television program).
  
  3\. Actors — Great Britain — Biography. i. Title.
  
  pn2598.l39c43 2007 792.02'8092 c2007-903579-5
  
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  Back Cover Image: Evere