Front Row | 25/12/2009
Based on The History Boys by Alan Bennett
In a special edition of Front Row with Mark Lawson, Alan Bennett reflects on his long career as a television playwright and explains why his series of monologues, Talking Heads, turned out to be so controversial. He also discusses his relationship with his father and the ethics of autobiographical writing.
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Licence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 28'42''
- Broadcast date: 2009
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Literary Resource
Lady in the Van (2015)
The true story of Miss Shepherd, an eccentric woman of uncertain origins, who 'temporarily' parked her broken-down van in writer Alan Bennett's London driveway for 15 years.
Start the Week | Nicholas Hytner
Hytner made his name and fortune in the 1990s with the musical Miss Saigon. Further successes came with theatre and film productions of The Madness of King George and The History Boys, and the sell-out One Man, Two Guvnors. During the year of the pandemic Hytner has sought to keep the theatre afloat with performances of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads.