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A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
Category: Biography
Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's ...Show more
Alan Bennett Box Set by Alan Bennett
Category: Accessories
A beautiful collectable box set, published to celebrate the 80th birthday of Alan Bennett, May 2014.
Alan Bennett Children's Collection (8-CD) by Alan Bennett
Category: Audio
This is a box set collection of stories read by Alan Bennett.
Alan Bennett - Keeping on Keeping On - Diaries 2005-2014 by Alan Bennett (Read by)
Category: Audio
Alan Bennett reads the latest instalment of his diaries, as heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. Following on from Alan Bennett's bestselling, award-winning prose collections Writing Home and Untold Stories, Keeping On Keeping On is a third anthology featuring his unique observations, recollections ...Show more
Alan Bennett Plays : Twelve Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas by Imelda (NRT) Maggie (NRT); Staunton Patricia (NRT); Smith Sir (NRT); Routledge John Alan; Gielgud Bennett
Category: Audio
A unique collection of twelve full-cast BBC Radio productions of plays by Alan Bennett. The titles are Forty 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; Th ...Show more
Alan Bennett: Stories - Read by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett (Read by)
Category: Audio
A unique collection of eight Alan Bennett stories read by the author. The titles are Uncle Clarence; The Lady in the Van; The Clothes They Stood Up In; Father Father Burning Bright; Hymn; The Laying On of Hands; The Uncommon Reader; and The Shielding of Mrs Forbes. These readings were first broadcast on ...Show more
Alan Bennett, Triple Bill by Alan Bennett
Category: Audio
Three classic Alan Bennett adaptations, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and released on CD for the first time. "A Visit from Miss Prothero": Since Mr Dodsworth retired, he has had all the time in the world. Then he has a visitor from his old firm - Miss Prothero, who is eager to tell him all the news... ...Show more
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
The Laying on of Hands, the painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In, the comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright, the savage satire on the family of a dying m ...Show more
History Boys by Alan Bennett
Category: Gift | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
Category: Biography
Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett. 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I hope they're not the thin end of a precautionary wedge ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
Category: Biography
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more