Alan Bennett presents highlights from his remarkable career at the BBC. This unique anthology of Bennett's BBC radio and television work features extracts from his diaries and readings, as well...

Clive has died young, in Peru, and in circumstances which make some of his many friends uneasy. The congregation gathered for his memorial service is unexpectedly distinguished; amongst the...

Alan Bennett stars in a new production of his own acclaimed satrical comedy, thirty years after its original West End debut. The Headmaster has been at Albion House for fifty years, man and...

Alan Bennett’s new, award-winning play as heard on BBC Radio 3 features the National Theatre cast.After a sell-out national tour and an extended stage run, Alan Bennett’s phenomenally...

Alan Bennett joins forces with the acclaimed Medici String Quartet for a prestigious world premiere first performed at the Harrogate Festival in August 2001. 'Hymn' is a series of prose pieces...

It was the corgis’ fault. When they strayed through the grounds of Buckingham Palace, the Queen discovered the City of Westminster travelling library.The Queen has never had much time for...

Three classic Alan Bennett adaptations, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and released on CD for the first time. ‘A Visit from Miss Prothero’ Since Mr Dodsworth retired, he has had all the...

Patricia Routledge, Sir John Gielgud, Alan Bennett and Paul Eddington star in two plays as broadcast on BBC Radio 4: 'A Woman of No Importance' and 'Forty Years On'. 'A Woman of No Importance':...

The second collection of six individual portraits from the master of the monologue.Darker and more intense than the first collection, these six stories uncover the secrets behind ordinary...

Alan Bennett introduces three monologues starring Thora Hird, including her final performance. Until the time of her death in 2003, much-loved actress Thora Hird worked regularly with the...

Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent stars as ‘mad’ King George III in the title role of this adaptation of Alan Bennett’s award-winning play, which co-stars Cheryl Campbell, Nicholas Farrell...

A Life Like Other People's' brings together the finest and funniest of Alan Bennett's writing over the last ten years.A poignant family memoir recalling the marriage of Alan’s parents, the...

Richard Griffiths, Alison Steadman and Peter Woodthorpe star in this BBC Radio 4 version of Alan Bennett's acclaimed comedy drama stage play. Present-day Kafka aficionado Sydney, and his wife...

A poignant, gently humorous tale from master storyteller Alan Bennett. All his life Midgley had felt he had disappointed his father. Given all the opportunities his father never had Midgley...

Alan Bennett’s three classic BBC Radio full-cast dramas: 'Kafka’s Dick', 'Forty Years On' and 'An Englishman Abroad'.'Kafka’s Dick' - Alison Steadman, Richard Griffiths and Nigel Anthony...