Product Description: The screenplay edition of the major motion picture adaptation, starring Maggie Smith, of Alan Bennett's acclaimed story "The Lady in the Van." This edition features an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner (Miss Saigon, The History Boys)From acclaimed author and playwright Alan Bennett, whose smash hit The History Boys won a Tony Award for Best Play, comes the screenplay of The Lady in the Van-soon to be a major motion picture starring Dame Maggie Smith...read more

Clint's quest for a new horse leads to trouble when a horse breeder is killed and his wife mysteriously disappears, kidnapped by a gang of cold-blooded and ruthless killers.

Product Description: Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town.

Alan Bennett reads The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Other Nonsense Rhymes by Edward Lear.The poems and limericks in this delightful collection include"The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly""The Owl and the Pussy-Cat""The Duck and the Kangaroo""The Table and the Chair""The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs""Mr and Mrs Discobbolos""The Nutcrackers and the Sugar Tongs""The Two Old Bachelors""The Pobble Who Has No Toes""The Jumblies""The Dog with a Luminous Nose""The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò""The Quangle Wangle's Hat""Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly""An Epitaph""There Was a Young Lady in Blue""There Was an Old Person of Harrow""There Was an Old Man of Dumbree""There Was a Young Lady whose Chin""There Was an Old Man who when Little""There Was an Old Man on the Border""There Was an Old Man in a Tree""There Was an Old Man of Calcutta""There Was an Old Person of Ware"This work is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Product Description: This is 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...read more

Product Description: This is 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...read more

Product Description: Poets like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over a hundred 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...read more

Product Description: Y que puede interesar a alguien cuyo unico oficio es mostrarse interesada? Porque una reina nunca debe ser interesante, ni tener otros intereses que los de sus subditos. Y jamas habla de sus gustos, solo pregunta por los de ellos...read more

Product Description: The Guide to the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement is a practical resource for business managers, as well as financial and legal advisers. It provides a clear, concise overview of the legislation and the many issues relevant to AUSFTA, such as market access for goods, cross-border trade in services, rules of origin, qualifications for preferential duty rates, customs administration, technical barriers to trade, and safeguards...read more

Product Description: Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics. The Laying on of Hands The painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous...read more

Product Description: Presents two short tales of sex, secrets, and misrepresentation, including "The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson," in which a widow supplements her income by being a test subject for medical students.

Product Description: A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world ...a saleroom here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover...read more

Product Description: Highlights from the satirical, political, and musical comedy TV sketch show starring Alan Bennett, John Sergeant, and Virginia Stride. On the Margin was a six-part BBC TV satirical comedy sketch show written and performed by Alan Bennett, with John ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Sergeant and Virginia Stride...read more

Product Description: One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students, and renting out her spare room...read more

Product Description: One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students, and renting out her spare room...read more

Product Description: Two unexpected tales written and read by the bestselling author of The Uncommon Reader, Untold Stories, and The History Boys, Alan Bennett. The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson: Mrs. Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory, and finally dull...read more

Product Description: A literary collection that gives voice to a significant Northeast Ohio immigrant community Since the early nineteenth century, Cleveland and the surrounding region have benefited from the emigration of European Jewry. A unique anthology of essays, short stories, and poems, Remembering: Cleveland’s  Jewish Voices gathers for the first time rare and previously inaccessible writings about the Jewish experience in Northeast Ohio...read more

Part of the 'Untold Stories', a collection of prose by Allen Bennett. This work is a sideways look at Bennett's schooldays at Leeds Modern School, and a recollection of the growing pains of puberty.

Part of 'Untold Stories', a collection of prose by Allen Bennett, this work contains two reminiscences from Bennett's life and an essay on the class system. It describes an incident in Italy when he was mugged, and found himself trying to give a statement to the police in bad Italian.