Ten childhood snapshots from the master of the monologue
A Strip of Blue Proper Names
Our War Eating Out
An Ideal Home Aunt Eveline
A Shy Butcher Unsaid Prayers
Days Out No Mean City
Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are funny, touching and told in his unique style.
Hampered, as he sees it, by a family that never manages to be quite like other families, he recounts his early years in Leeds - 'a place where one learned early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere': there is hiking every Sunday, trips into town and teas in cafes. It's an ordinary childhood; Bennett's father's a butcher, his mother a reader of women's magazines who dreams of coffee mornings and cocktail parties and life 'Down South'.
He re-lives family crises, early pieties and the last of a tradition of musical evenings round the piano, in tales that are told with that wry observation and ironic understatement that has earned Alan Bennett his place in the forefront of contemporary writing.
Written By : Scott Dikkers and Peter Hilleren
Narrated By : Scott Dikkers and Peter Hilleren
Published By : Simon & Schuster
Runtime : 5 hours
Categories : Politics Military Comedy
Price : $29.95 $17.95
The great man we meet here displays his mother's steely resolve and vindictive temper, his father's keen mastery of language, and his own unique gift of deciding. More info...
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Written By : Pam Ayres
Narrated By : Pam Ayres
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours
Categories : Humor Poetry Comedy
Price : $18.99
Pam Ayres at her entertaining best in a live stage show from Stratford-upon-Avon... More info...
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Written By : Tucker Carlson
Narrated By : Tucker Carlson
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Runtime : 4 hours 58 minutes
Categories : TV & Film Journalism Comedy Humor
Price : $24.95
Tucker Carlson loosens his signature bowtie and cracks wise on all things political. More info...
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Written By : Kenneth Williams
Narrated By : David Benson
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours 5 minutes
Categories : Comedy
Price : $18.99
Whether he was a sad, self-obsessed man or a tortured comic genius, Williams had a unique talent, which Benson captures incredibly well in this one-off insight into Williams' private life More info...
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