This is a companion volume to Alan Bennett's two collections of television plays published as 'Me, I'm afraid of Virginia Woolf' and 'Rolling Home'.

Presents an anthology of Alan Bennett's radio and television work featuring extracts from his diaries and readings, tributes to friends Russell Harty and Peter Cook plus commentary and recorded links by Bennett himself.

This version of Alan Bennett's popular stage play, starring Sir John Gielgud, Alan Bennett and Paul Eddington, is paired with one of his famous monologues starring Patricia Routledge as Margaret.

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Product Description: A second collection of Alan Bennett plays, including "Kafka's Dick", "The Insurance Man", "The Old Country", "An Englishman Abroad", and "A Question of Attribution".

Product Description: A collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance.

Alan Bennett reads a selection of verse from some of the nation's finest poets including Thomas Hardy, John Betjemen and Philip Larkin, He also makes observations on the poets and their lives.

Features Alan Bennett's three classic BBC Radio dramas: 'Kafka's Dick', 'Forty Years On' and 'An Englishman Abroad'.

Presents a collection of prose that brings together the author's writing over the years. This work is one amongst two recordings that feature selected material from 'Untold Stories'. This story contains a family memoir recalling the marriage of the author's parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret.

Whether appreciating the simple pleasures of nature, or commenting on religion, politics or the arts, Allan Bennettt's observations in his dairies are incisive, funny, and yet always meaningful. This work covers Alan Bennett's diaries from 1997-2004.

Everything has gone, even the toilet paper, and for the stuffy solicitor and his wife it marks a turning point. This is an ironic tale about the Ransomes who have been burgled.

Returning home from the opera, Mr. and Mrs. Ransome discover that their Notting Hill flat has been stripped bare of everything and are forced to adjust to the possibilities of life without the possessions that define them.

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

Alan Bennett's award-winning series of solo pieces is a classic of contemporary drama, universally hailed for its combination of razor-sharp wit and deeply felt humanity. In Bed Among the Lentils, a vicar's wife discovers a semblance of happiness with an Indian shop owner. In A Chip in the Sugar, a man's life begins to unravel when he discovers his aging mother has rekindled an old flame. In A Lady of Letters, a busybody pays a price for interfering in her neighbor's life.First produced for BBC television in 1988 to great critical acclaim, the Talking Heads monologues also appeared on the West End Stage in London in 1992 and 1998. In 2002, seven of the pieces were performed at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles for a highly praised brief engagement, and in 2003 a selection of the monologues premiered in New York at the Minetta Lane Theatre. These extraordinary portraits of ordinary people confirm Alan Bennett's place as one of the most gifted, versatile, and important writers in the English Language.

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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.

Presents a tale in which the author reads his own funny and poignant story set in a northern hospital. Here, comedy is mixed with farce and family relationships are revealed in a throw-away sentence.

Product Description: Alan Bennett's second story, set in the 1970s in Yorkshire. Midgeley is determined to deny his father a last occasion to be disappointed in him. He will do the right thing and sit by his intensive care bedside till he dies. But even unconscious his father manages to make Midgeley's life a misery...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: A British Labour M.P., ten years into his second marriage, feels tethered in a time of change. He is distrustful on the one hand of the "mawkish mentality" of the young and, on the other, of the encroaching motorway life of the middle aged who can look forward to nothing more than the fairly imminent end of a not so very interesting road...read more