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Sir Nicholas Hytner interviews living legend and playwright Alan Bennett on the eve of his 80th birthday. Ranging across 40 years of...
Michael Berkeley's guest this week is Alan Bennett. Music choices include Ella Fitzgerald singing 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered'. This ...
Alan Bennett reads from his diaries: The History Boys has ended its theatre run and he laments abandoned pieces he has written.
Alan Bennett, in conversation with Mark Lawson, reflects on his recent work for the stage.
Author, actor, humorist and playwright Alan Bennett talks to Mark Lawson about his life and career.
In May 2024, Alan Bennett turned 90. This film celebrates one of Britain's best-loved playwrights, who offers some characteristically frank ...
Documentary inspired by Alan Bennett's acerbic and often hilarious diaries and filmed over a year in the writer's life.
Irene Ruddock dashes off letters with her trusty fountain pen, complaining about the failures of others. But whe...
Michael is only 15, but you wouldn't know. Gwen thought there would be something that gave you immunity, that yo...
Muriel's son Giles appears with papers for her to sign. It turns out she is quite a rich widow. But soon there's a l...
Actor Lesley prides herself on her professionalism, even if it's for a walk-on role. She is thrilled to land the ro...
Wilfred is a parks attendant. After he befriends a young girl, it becomes clear why nobody can trace his record...
Graham is his mam's number one. But when they bump into semi-retired Mr Turnbull, Graham discovers she had a l...
Marjory hates husband Stuart's dog, Tina. He takes her out late, comes in at midnight, clothes in the wash, naked ...
Susan is not cut out to be the vicar's wife. When she meets Mr. Ramesh in his shop, she discovers what else ...
Rosemary recalls the morning she was accosted by Mrs McCorquodale, who had shot her husband. A frien...
Celia runs an antiques shop. But after she buys a lovely old frame containing the smudgy drawing of a finger, she...
Miss Fozzard has a new chiropodist, Mr. Dunderdale, though technically he's retired. Their weekly app...
Lorna visits the spot where Clifford's motorbike crashed, hoping for some closure. But one day she finds someone else ...
Disastrous excursions into leisurewear and attempts to entertain the vicar - Alan Bennett's descriptions of his parents' social aspirations are both touch...
Alan Bennett celebrated his 75th birthday in 2009, and his latest play The Habit of Art opens at the National Theatre five years after The History Boy...
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...
Alan Bennett-penned monologue in which Maggie Smith plays the vicar's wife who finds a vision of God at the local off-licence.
A monologue by Alan Bennett about Muriel, the recently widowed wife of a stockbroker. Complete with twin-set and pearls, she starts to ta...
Drama monologue by Alan Bennett, starring Julie Walters. Lesley is a small-part actress who lands a role in a video set on a yacht, but ...
A monologue by Alan Bennett, starring Thora Hird as an independent old lady who has a fall that decides her future.
James Corden, actor and writer of Gavin and Stacey, is Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and writer. As a child he longed to act - he f...
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is one of this country's leading character actors - Richard Griffiths. Most recently, he won three Be...
Hytner made his name and fortune in the 1990s with the musical Miss Saigon. Further successes came with theatre and film productions of The ...
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...
A class of likely lads, caught in a clash of educational styles as they prepare to apply to Oxford or Cambridge, find their loyalties as well as thei...
Nicholas Hytner tells the inside story of 12 years at the helm of Britain's greatest theatre. It's...
Jonathan Ross presents review of the new film releases, including The History Boys.
Mole, Rat and Badger try to curb the wild ways of their friend, Toad as they set out on their famous adventure. Dramatised an...
Graham, a middle-aged man who lives with his mother, finds her taking up with old flame Mr Turnbull.
Irene Ruddock's mother died some years ago and she lives alone. A one-woman Neighbourhood Watch scheme, her habit of writing letters ...
Miss Fozzard has to care for her brother after he has a stroke. However, she doesn't want to leave her job in soft furnishi...
Celia, an antiques dealer, is finding it hard to get new stock. While sitting at the bedside of the unwell Miss Ventriss, Celia notices...
Wilfred Paterson works for the parks department and he works well. But when a bureaucrat tries to fill in his personnel file, his pa...
Mallory keeps her house obsessively clean and insists the dog must stay outside. However her husband, Stuart, has dirt - and worse - on...
Rosemary takes over the care of a neighbour's garden after they have a brush with the law.
Violet's long life includes two telegrams, both from the monarch. Awaiting the second, she remembers the first. Starring Thora...
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