Highlights from the satirical, political comedy TV sketch show starring Alan Bennett, John Sergeant and Virginia Stride.‘On the Margin’ was a six part BBC TV satirical comedy sketch show...

Maggie Smith reprises her stage role in this remarkable new version of Alan Bennett’s play – as heard on BBC Radio 4.An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she...

'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit.

Captain MacWhirr was an ordinary man. However,...

Ian McEwan’s poignant tale of family secrets, memory, guilt and forgiveness is read by Carole BoydOn the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister...

From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to...

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':...

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...

Stella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work for Atlantic Energy, a global oil company in London. Bella is a pretty, single mother who dropped out of college and is doomed to work as an invisible...

When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on...

'Untold Stories', Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling 'Writing Home', brings together the finest and funniest of his writing over the last ten years. Following on...

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional...

One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Though time brings more success and new love, he remains mystified by her absence. Was she...

Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers and dancing girls. All are ordinary people. Or are they? In this splendid collection of short stories, Margaret...

Lord Copper, business magnate and proprietor of The Beast newspaper, had become ‘Boot conscious’. Boot was undoubtedly one of the best writers around. Boot was read by the Prime Minister. Boot...

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...