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Alan Bennett
- Telling Tales
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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Alan Bennett: Plays
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A unique collection of 12 full-cast BBC Radio productions of plays by Alan Bennett. The titles are: 40 Years On, A Visit from Miss Prothero, Say Something Happened, Kafka's Dick, Two in Torquay, The Madness of George III, The History Boys, An Englishman Abroad, A Question of Attribution, The Lady in the Van, Cocktail Sticks and The Last of the Sun.
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The Complete Talking Heads
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The complete audio collection of Alan Bennett's celebrated monologues, published together for the first time and performed by some of Britain's best actors. The Talking Heads monologues are widely regarded as one of Alan Bennett's finest dramatic achievements. First broadcast on BBC TV and BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s and 1990s, they won a host of awards and huge popular acclaim, and remain among his most admired works today.
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Entertaining
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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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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
- By Highlight on 10-09-18
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Alan & Thora
- By: Alan Bennett
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This splendid title showcases the combined talents of Alan Bennett, one of our foremost dramatists and writers, and Thora Hird, the celebrated and much-loved actor who died in 2003. It features an exclusive and unique recording, The Last of the Sun, that Thora made for BBC Audiobooks a couple of months before her death.
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lovely memiors of a truly loved lady.
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Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett's three classic BBC Radio full-cast dramas: Kafka's Dick, Forty Years On, and An Englishman Abroad.
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Three first class plays
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Lady in the Van
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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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Dear Philip, Dear Kingsley
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- By: Philip Larkin
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A meeting at Oxford University during World War II signalled the beginning of a lifelong friendship between two outstanding contributors to 20th century English literature: Philip Larkin, poet, and Kingsley Amis, the prolific novelist. Selected from correspondence written between 1943 and 1985, these letters offer an entertaining and illuminating insight into the prejudices, exasperations and in-jokes of two literary greats. A linking commentary complements the writers' own words.
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Petulant listener wants more
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The Lady in the Van
- A BBC Radio 4 adaptation
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett, full cast, Maggie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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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
- By T M Brown on 01-01-16
Summary
Ten childhood snapshots from the master of the monologue:
A Strip Of Blue, Proper Names, Our War, Eating Out, An Ideal Home, Aunt Eveline, A Shy Butcher, Unsaid Prayers, Days Out, No Mean City
Following on from the phenomenal success of Writing Home, Alan Bennett reminisces about his early years, from his schooldays to undergraduate life at Oxford University.
It was an ordinary childhood, growing up in Leeds taught Alan early on that "life is generally something that happens elsewhere". Yet the children who long for German bombs to lend their city some wartime glamour; the working class mother who reads Ideal Home and dreams of coffee mornings and cocktail parties; and 18-year-old Alan, a practising Anglican who is deeply distrustful of God, strike a chord within all of us.
In fact, it is their very ordinariness that makes these tales so special, combined, of course, with the wry observation and tender understatement that have earned Alan Bennett his place at the forefront of contemporary writing.
Listen to our charming interview with Alan Bennett on the Audible.co.uk Podcast.
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- Paul Brookes
- 17-11-16
Beautifully poignant and funny
Nostalgic, funny, incisive. Takes me back and has good lessons for how we live now. you Highly recommended.
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- Karen Seary
- 04-08-16
telling tales
Excels at monologue story telling. Holds attention through creating strong period dialogue and colloquial phrases
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-12-18
Honest
He tells the story with love, honesty and regret , that like most people on reflection wish they could have been different.
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- Peter Brooks
- 06-10-18
North Star
For someone like me, born and raised in a town in the north of England, educated in the local grammar school and who began working life in Leeds, this is poignant reminder of how life was for many working class boys. Told in Bennet's inimitable style it is a joy.