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...
A unique 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 specially recorded...
Alan Bennett’s distinctive readings of children’s stories have become classics in their own right. His interpretations of the wonderful characters that people Lewis Carroll’s extraordinary novels are,...
A quirky, wry and ironic tale about the Ransomes who have been burgled. Everything has gone, even the toilet paper, and for the stuffy solicitor and his wife it marks a turning point.
Features: Forty Years On & A Woman of No Importance. 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...
Michael Gambon is Guy Burgess and Penelope Wilton the actress Coral Browne in Bennett's re-telling of a real-life incident. Whilst touring 'Hamlet' Moscow with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in...
Alan Bennett reads his own funny and poignant story set largely in a northern hospital. Comedy is mixed with farce and family relationships are revealed in a throw-away sentence in this moving tale...
