The Complete Talking Heads, Alan Bennett
The Complete Talking Heads, Alan Bennett
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The Complete Talking Heads
The classic BBC Radio 4 monologues plus A Woman of No Importance

Author: Alan Bennett

Narrator: Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2015

Synopsis

The complete audio collection of Alan Bennett’s celebrated monologues, published together for the first time and performed by some of Britain’s best actors

The Talking Heads monologues are widely regarded as one of Alan Bennett’s finest dramatic achievements. First broadcast on BBC TV and BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s and 1990s, they won a host of awards and huge popular acclaim, and remain among his most admired works today.This collection includes all twelve Talking Heads, plus the precursor of that series, A Woman of No Importance. Beautifully crafted and full of compassion and wry observation, each tale is ripe with the quirky, insightful detail that has become Bennett's trademark. The monologues are:A Woman of No Importance (Patricia Routledge); A Chip in the Sugar (Alan Bennett); A Lady of Letters (Patricia Routledge); Bed Among the Lentils (Anna Massey); Soldiering On (Stephanie Cole); Her Big Chance (Julie Walters); A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (ThoraHird); Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet (Patricia Routledge); The Hand of God (Eileen Atkins); Playing Sandwiches (David Haig); The Outside Dog (Julie Walters); Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Penelope Wilton) and Waiting for the Telegram (Thora Hird).

Intensely moving, deeply engrossing and highly entertaining, these spellbinding soliloquies are essential listening.

About Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett is a renowned playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and
author who has won dozens of awards in his more than fifty-year career,
including awards for lifetime achievement. His bestselling titles
include The Uncommon Reader, Untold Stories, Writing Home, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on October 12, 2022

Loved these monologues and found them to be quintessentially British! I happen to finish reading them just in time to then watch the BBC’s new recordings of them.......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on June 13, 2020

I'd seen a couple of these on TV, and wondered whether they would work on the page. But I was not disappointed. Alan Bennett writes with such wit and perception that I could often visualise a set piece without having seen it. So true to life, but such poignancy. I have mixed feelings about confessing......more

Goodreads review by [ J o ] on June 12, 2018

Unfortunately, you cannot read this. Because it is written by An Old White Dude and everyone knows that Old White Dudes cannot write women well. And everyone knows that. Everyone. Everyone knows that men, especially Old White Dudes are out of touch with modern society. This shit was written in the 80......more

Goodreads review by Stef on June 22, 2017

Great fun reading these theatre monologues with characters ranging from the hilarious to the sad. The first one is maybe the best one: never imagined that such a little sentence as "We laughed" could become so significant, and sad! The most hilarious one is The finger of God. The only weak one would......more

Goodreads review by Helle on January 05, 2015

I picked up this book last time I was in London solely based on having read and thoroughly enjoyed Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader, which I chuckled my way through. My expectations, therefore, were probably not quite realistic, not because Talking Heads isn’t funny. It is, in parts, but more than that......more

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