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Alan Bennett
reads three further chapters 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. After
"Untold Stories: Part 1: Stories", "Part 2: The
Diaries" and "Part 3: Written on the Body" (all
available from BBC Audiobooks), "Part 4: A Common
Assault" contains two more reminiscences from Bennett's
life and an essay on the class system.
"A Common Assault" describes an incident in Italy when
he was mugged, and found himself trying to give a statement to
the police in bad Italian. "The History Boys" harks
back once more to Bennett's time at school, and shows how the
raw material of experience was eventually transformed into the
highly-acclaimed stage play "The History Boys".
"Arise, Sir...", finishes on a light-hearted note, in
which Bennett muses on the Honours List in typically
iconoclastic mode.
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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