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Alan Bennett reads five more extracts
from "Untold Stories", his major collection of new writings.
"Untold Stories", Alan Bennett's first major collection of
prose since his bestselling "Writing Home", brings together
the finest and funniest of his writing over the last ten years.
Following on from "Untold Stories: Part 1: Stories" and
"Part 2: The Diaries" (also available from BBC Audiobooks),
"Part 3: Written on the Body" is both a reflection on Alan
Bennett's childhood and schooldays and a meditation on writing.
"Written on the Body" is a sideways look at Bennett's
schooldays at Leeds Modern School, and a recollection of the growing
pains of puberty. "Seeing Stars" is a nostalgic view of the
movies of the Forties, seen by Bennett and his family in any one of the
half a dozen cinemas in their district in Leeds, including the Western,
the Clifton, the Picturedrome and the Lyric. Finally, "Staring Out
of the Window" lets us into Bennett's creative process, which
apparently consists of a good deal of... well... staring out of the
window. Alan Bennett's television series "Talking Heads" has
become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage,
including "Forty Years On", "The Lady in the Van",
"The Madness of George III" (together with the Oscar-nominated
screenplay "The Madness of King George") and an adaptation of
"The Wind in the Willows". "The History Boys" won
the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, the
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, the South Bank Award and six
Tony Awards.
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