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Alan Bennett
- Untold Stories Part 3: Written on the Body
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment & Celebrities
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Entertaining
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Alan Bennett: Plays
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lovely memiors of a truly loved lady.
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The Lady in the Van
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Maggie Smith stars in this BBC radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's highly acclaimed autobiographical stage play. An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she remains, installed in her van in glorious self-sufficiency, until the council instructs her to move on. Then a kind homeowner invites her to move her van into his garden - where she stays for the next 15 years.
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Brilliant, a classic
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Alan Bennett Reads Childhood Classics
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The Wind in the Willows is the classic story featuring Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad (of Toad Hall). In Alice in Wonderland, when Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole, she embarks on a series of adventures with some of the most weird and wonderful characters ever encountered. In Through the Looking Glass, Alice sees another world in the looking glass and wishes she could go there.
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Great reading, poor planning
- By J Halle on 20-03-17
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Lady in the Van
- By: Alan Bennett
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The humorous and moving tale of Miss Shepherd, an eccentric old lady who, by a bizarre series of twists and turns, lived in the author's garden for many years. Alan Bennett reads his own acclaimed work, recently adapted as a West End smash hit starring Maggie Smith as the eccentric old lady.
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Charming
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Alan Bennett's On the Margin
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Produced by Sydney Lotterby of Yes Minister and Porridge fame. Each instalment featured a mixture of sketches (some foreshadowing Bennett's subsequent television dramas, others mocking television clichés, such as documentaries about working-class Northern writers and discussion programmes featuring pretentious critics). This is a never before broadcast compilation of sketches and extracts from the TV series before the tapes where wiped.
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Quietly peddling his genius
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Cocktail Sticks
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A radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's short autobiographical play, originally directed by Nicholas Hytner for the National Theatre. Alan looks back on his early life with affection and sadness, revisiting some of the themes and conversations of his memoir 'A Life Like other People's'. Both he and his mother are seduced by the idea that other people's lives are much richer and fulfilling than their own.
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ALAN BENNETT A DEDICATED SON
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Six Poets
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Alan Bennett's selection of English verse by his favourite poets: Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Philip Larkin is accompanied by his own enlivening commentary and was recorded before a live audience. In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen more than seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail.
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Just Listen
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P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1
- The Jeeves Collection
- By: P.G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 40 hrs and 37 mins
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“I have the honour to offer up to you, thanks to the good people of Audible, a selection of some of my very favourite Wodehouse. If these stories are new to you I hope it will be the beginning of a lifelong pleasure, if some or all are familiar I hope you will welcome them like old friends.” (Stephen Fry). Audible Studios presents this brand new performance by Stephen Fry of some of his favourite Jeeves stories from P.G. Wodehouse, with an exclusive introduction.
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Wrong voice...
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Summary
Winner of the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2006.
Alan Bennett reads five more extracts from Untold Stories, his major collection of new writings.
Untold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling Writing Home, brings together the finest and funniest of his writing over the last 10 years. Following on from Untold Stories: Part 1: Stories and Part 2: The Diaries (also available from BBC Audiobooks), Part 3: Written on the Body is both a reflection on Alan Bennett's childhood and schooldays and a meditation on writing. Written on the Body is a sideways look at Bennett's schooldays at Leeds Modern School, and a recollection of the growing pains of puberty. Seeing Stars is a nostalgic view of the movies of the Forties, seen by Bennett and his family in any one of the half a dozen cinemas in their district in Leeds, including the Western, the Clifton, the Picturedrome, and the Lyric. Finally, Staring Out of the Window lets us into Bennett's creative process, which apparently consists of a good deal of...well...staring out of the window.
Listen to our charming interview with Alan Bennett on the Audible.co.uk Podcast.
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- Alison
- 06-02-15
You gotta love Bennet
What did you like best about Alan Bennett? What did you like least?
Bennet's extraordinary revelations set in such ordinary surroundings make compelling listening, leaving me as always, slightly phased as he's never exactly how I expect
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- Rhiannon
- 20-04-17
Hilarious and touching
What did you like most about Alan Bennett?
He's very honest about the awkwardness and naivety he felt growing up. The thing I like most about him is his obvious empathy for the human condition.
What other book might you compare Alan Bennett to, and why?
He's reminds me slightly of Jeanette Winterson, but he's incomparable really.
What about Alan Bennett’s performance did you like?
His warmth and humour, and his openness about his perceived shortcomings.
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- Gretchen SLP
- 05-04-17
Reflections on Sex, Stars, and Writing
This was a good listen, though I didn't love it as much as the first two installments. Still, I'm glad to have heard it, and have already bought volume 4. Of the three main sections in this volume, I found Bennett's reflections on growing up gay in postwar Great Britain to be the most interesting, followed by his observations on his writing process and career. His stories of interactions with old movie stars were probably least interesting to me because so many of them were celebrities before my time. Overall, I'd recommend this only to fans, Anglophiles, and listeners who liked The Lady in the Van.
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