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Talking Heads: No. 1 (BBC Radio Collection) |  | Authors: Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge, Stephanie Cole, Julie Walters, Thora Hird, Anna Massey
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0563558946
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780563558941
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Publication Date: October 3, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Alan Bennett's award-winning series of six television monologues, Talking Heads, may have been first aired in 1988, but over a decade later it is still impossible to read these deeply moving and affectionate scripts without hearing the voices of the actors who played them. Maggie Smith as the alcoholic vicar's wife finding a semblance of happiness in an affair with an Indian shop owner, Patricia Routledge as the poisonous neighbour, Julie Walters as the over-the-hill dolly bird auditioning for a porn film and of course Thora Hird as Doris, the old lady alone in her home having fallen and broken her hip. All great performances and all made possible by Bennett's wonderfully observant and poignant scripts. Bennett rightly notes in his introduction to the pieces that, maybe apart from Doris, his narrators are artless in that they "don't quite know what they are saying and are telling a story to the meaning of which they are not entirely privy". But through their artlessnes they reveal more about Britain today and the stresses and strains placed upon ordinary people, than any number of docu-soaps that now claim to show us real life. --Nick Wroe
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 talking books March 9, 2010
Mr. M. Hinstridge (Liverpool UK)
Yes I know its book and not an audiobook but I can hear his voice in the written words and it brings the book to life. The delivery service was excellent as always.
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Mrs. S. Stanhope (UK)
This is more a review about Amazon - I ordered the Alan Bennett for a Christmas present and was told it would not arrive until after Christmas. However it arrived on the 23rd December and I was really impressed with the service. Well done Amazon. Sylvia Stanhope
Talking Heads 2 January 16, 2010
D. Humble
I've been listening to this on tapes for years, so it was good to ged a CD ...now I can listen all day long! I have enjoyed Alan Bennett's work for some time and these monologues are fantastic, though some have a sad message he tells them in a witty tone, very insightful. His work is timeless and I still find news things each time I listen,
Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet with Patricia Routledge .... is soooooo funny and Patricia Routledge can't get much better
The Hands of God with Eileen Atkins...Great
Playing Sandwiches with David Haig ....sad story told so well
The Outside Dog with Julie Walters ....dark but humorous
Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Penelope Wilton ...Listen yourself..dark ...but fantastic
Waiting for the Telegram with Thora Hird. ....so poignant..Thora, even in her later years is the best
This is a must, along with Talking Heads 1
 FAULTY disc September 18, 2009
I. Costa (GB)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
i enjoyed listening to the stories until the second set the first disc in the set gets too the end then skips back five minuets then finishes normally, the second story starts after five minuets then skips back to beginning had replacement same problem faulty batch
Theatre of the Mind !!! September 18, 2009
Colin Fairley (LONDON)
I am a fisherman and love talking books !! It doesn't get any better than Alan Bennett!! Edgy,humerous and down home as they say in USA.
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