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Alan Bennett: Plays

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Alan Bennett: Plays

By: Alan Bennett
Narrated by: Full Cast, John Gielgud, Maggie Smith, Patricia Routledge
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12 full-cast BBC Radio productions of Alan Bennett’s beloved plays, starring Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Judi Dench, John Gielgud, Alex Jennings, Patricia Routledge, Thora Hird, Prunella Scales and many more

Over the course of his distinguished career, Alan Bennett has received multiple awards and honours, including two BAFTAs, four Laurence Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination, and a British Book Award for Author of the Year in 2006.
This collection includes:

  • Forty Years On (tracks 1-4)
  • A Visit from Miss Prothero (track 5)
  • Say Something Happened (track 6)
  • Kafka's Dick (tracks 7-8)
  • Two in Torquay (track 9)
  • The Last of the Sun, with a special introduction by Alan Bennett (tracks 10-12)
  • The Madness of George III (track 13-
  • The History Boys (track 15-16)
  • An Englishman Abroad (track 17-18)
  • A Question of Attribution (track 18)
  • The Lady in the Van (track 19-20)
  • Cocktail Sticks (track 21)

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Sentiment without sentimentality, wit without smartaleckary. Mr Bennett is a master of turning the commonplace into the fascinating.

The greatest living playwright.

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Loved every single second. Wonderful. Beyond brilliant. My okay criticism would be Audible why aren’t there titles on the chapters do listeners can easily find a play? It’s ridiculous.
But Mr Alan Bennett what a genius and the plays themselves are performed so well. The bits of commentary by Bennett are helpful too. The casts great

Beyond brilliant - but please put titles on the chapters!

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Some brilliant story's though one or two I struggled with probably make more sense listening to them again, on the whole very enjoyable.

Entertaining listening

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Loved these plays. A wonderful writer with an illuminating sideways view of life. Funny, sardonic, gentle and at times sharp as a rasor blade Alan Bennet lays it all out as he sees it. Brilliant.

Alan Bennet rocks!!!!

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I enjoyed this collection of plays. Well worth listening too. Also kept me entertained on a long coach journey to Belgium. Which would have otherwise been very boring indeed.

Really enjoyable

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