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Allelujah! by Alan Bennett
Category: Film & Tv
- What were you in life?- In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to the patients, a documenta ...Show more
Father! Father! Burning Bright by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction | Series: BBC Radio Collection
Father! Father! Burning Bright by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
Alan Bennett's second story, set in the 1970s in Yorkshire. Midgeley is determined to deny his father a last occasion to be disappointed in him. He will do the right thing and sit by his intensive care bedside till he dies. But even unconscious his father manages to make Midgeley's life a misery. A port ...Show more
Father! Father! Burning Bright by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction | Series: BBC Radio Collection
Forty Years on by Alan Bennett
Category: Drama
"Alan Bennett's most gloriously funny play ...a brilliant, youthful perception of a nation in decline, as seen through the eyes of a home-grown school play ...a classic". (Daily Mail).
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics. The Laying on of Hands The painfully observant account of a memorial service fo ...Show more
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
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
Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett
Category: Drama
"After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body ...a combination of hurtling action with verbal brilliance". (Guardian).
History Boys by Alan Bennett
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
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, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
House Arrest 10 copy pack by Alan Bennett
Category: Memoir & Biography
Contains 10 copies of House Arrest and a free reading copy.