Until the time of her death in 2003, much-loved actress Thora Hird worked regularly with the playwright Alan Bennett. Now, in a specially written introduction and postscript...more details Format:CD-Audio
This unique box of Alan Bennett's poignant stories, read by the author himself includes, The Lady in the Van; The Clothes They Stood Up In; The Laying On of Hands; and Father! Father! Burning Bright!... all highly regarded as modern classics
Kafka's Dick - Alison Steadman, Richard Griffiths and Nigel Anthony star in this BBC Radio 4 version of Alan Bennett's acclaimed comedy drama...more details Format:CD-Audio
An Englishman Abroad' - It is 1958, and in a squalid flat in Moscow, double-agent Guy Burgess is hiding from the world. When he is visited by actress Coral Browne...more details Format:CD-Audio
Untold Stories recordings feature selected material from Untold Stories: Part 1: Stories contains the title piece. Part 2: The Diaries covers Alan Bennett s much-celebrated diaries for 1997 2004...more details Format:CD-Audio
Present-day Kafka aficionado, Sydney, and his wife, Linda, are visited by the long-dead Kafka and his friend Max Brod (with whom Kafka had left instructions for all his works to be burned - instructions which Brod chose to ignore). As we spend time with the unusual party...more details Format:CD-Audio
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...more details Format:CD-Audio
This second group of monologues from Alan Bennett retains the gripping stories, intensity of delivery and masterly style of the originals. The suburban normality of the world his characters inhabit once again belies their lives of secrets...more details Format:CD-Audio
In a sequence of humorous talks, Alan Bennett recalls his childhood. He re-lives family crises, early pieties and the last of a tradition of musical evenings round the piano...more details Format:CD-Audio
In Thatcherite Britain, an unruly but gifted group of sixth-form boys at a boys' grammar school in Sheffield are being coached for the Oxbridge exams. Their main concern is getting out - starting university - and starting life. At the heart of the play are four characters each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and education: a maverick English teacher...more details Format:CD-Audio
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (JR Ackerley...more details Format:CD-Audio
The Old Crowd A Private Function Prick Up Your Ears 102 Boulevard Haussmann The Madness of King GeorgeStarring characters as diverse as George III...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. The fascination of these two plays lies in the way they question our accepted notions of treachery and...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
Alan Bennett is the acknowledged master of the television play. This vintage collection of his work from the 1970s illustrates his skill and mastery of the medium from the beginning. Perceptive...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
Funny, touching and real, this second collection of Alan Bennett's classic work for television from the late 1970s and early 1980s is full of fine observations of life as it is lived. Often imitated but never equalled...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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 screenplay...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:112
Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
As memorial services go these days it had been billed as 'a celebration', the marrying of the valedictory with the festive convenient on several grounds. For a start it made grief less obligatory...more details Format:Paperback Pages:120
When George III's behaviour begins to seem odd, even for Royalty, the collapse of government is imminent. The King is subjected to the horrors of eighteenth-century medicine...more details Format:Paperback
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (JR Ackerley...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:160
Here are Alan Bennett's hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling novellas, brought together in one book for the first time:Father! Father! Burning Bright...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
Untold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection since his number one bestseller, Writing Home, is a compendium of some of his very finest and funniest writing from the last nine years. The book includes significant unpublished work...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:560
The paperback of Untold Stories contains new unpublished diaries, as well as a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds...more details Format:Paperback Pages:672
This book brings together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play...more details Format:Paperback Pages:482
A huge bestseller, Writing Home is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995 with reminiscences and reviews...more details Format:Hardcover
Writing Homebrings together Alan Bennett's diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play...more details Format:Hardback