The Complete Talking Heads

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BBC Worldwide, 2001 - 207 sider
The 'Complete Talking Heads' contains Alan Bennetts first series of six 'Talking Heads' monologues, written for BBC television in 1987, together with his eagerly awaited second series, written in 1998, which is certain to be as successful as the first. At Bennetts request the collection also includes A Woman Of No Importance, originally published in 'Objects Of Affection', making 13 stories in all. Alan Bennett is one of Britains best-loved and most highly acclaimed writers. As part of the 1960s revue, 'Beyond The Fringe', he helped to kick-start the English satire revolution, and has since remained one of our leading dramatists, most recently with his National Theatre adaptation of Kenneth Grahames 'The Wind In The Willows'.

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A Woman of No Importance
Introduction to Talking Heads 31
A Cream Cracker Under the Settee 106
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Om forfatteren (2001)

Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He decided to apply for a scholarship at Oxford University. He was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford from which he graduated with a first-class degree in history. He was born on May 9, 1934; he is an English author, actor, humorist and playwright. Bennett was made an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1987. He was also awarded a D.Litt by the University of Leeds in 1990 and an Hon. PhD from Kingston in 1996. In October 2008 Bennett announced that he was donating his entire archive of working papers, unpublished manuscripts, diaries and books to the Bodleian Library free of charge, as a gesture of thanks and repaying a debt he felt he owed to the UK's social welfare system that had given him educational opportunities which his humble family background would otherwise never have afforded. In 2015 his title, Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett, made The New Zealand Best Seller List. He also made the list in 2016 with his title The Lady in the Van.

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