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Alan Bennett - Keeping on Keeping On - Diaries 2005-2014 by Alan Bennett (Read by)
$24.99 AUD
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
$89.95 AUD
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)
$65.00 AUD
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
$31.95 AUD
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
$24.99 AUD
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
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
$15.99 AUD
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
$49.99 AUD
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
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
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Category: Biography
A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett's third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories. Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one ...Show more
Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Faber Stories) by ALAN BENNETT
$7.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer. "I didn't know you were interested in football," said Betty.' No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not the ...Show more
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Writers 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 seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse ...Show more
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Audio
Writers 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 vers ...Show more
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory either. Still, this is Alan Bennett, so what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) i ...Show more