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Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full-time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968.
His work includes The Madness of George III and its film adaptation, the series of monologues Talking Heads, the play and subsequent film The History Boys, and popular audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh.
Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds. The son of a co-op butcher, Walter, and his wife Lilian Mary (née Peel), Bennett attended Christ Church, Upper Armley, Church of England School (in the same class as Barbara Taylor Bradford), and then Leeds Modern School (now Lawnswood School).
Actors: Jill McCullough (miscellaneous crew), George Faber (producer), Rhys Ifans (actor), David Sterne (actor), Colin Towns (composer), Richard Durden (actor), Alan Cox (actor), Elizabeth Hawthorne (actress), Peter Rowley (actor), Charles Pattinson (producer), Jonathan Aris (actor), John Leigh (actor), Timothy Balme (actor), Barbara Darragh (costume designer), Robin Soans (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Graham Chapman (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), Phil Collins (actor), Ronnie Corbett (actor), John Cleese (actor), David Frost (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor), Terry Gilliam (actor),
Plot: Host Eddie Izzard links together interviews with former Python members and other famous comedians to tell the story of one the most famous comedy troupes of the 20th century. Includes rare clips, including the seldom seen "German episodes."
Keywords: comedy-troupe, monty-python, number-in-title, sketch-comedyActors: Gene Reynolds (director), Elinor Donahue (actress), Larry Gelbart (producer), Gene Reynolds (producer), Larry Gelbart (writer), Michael Talbott (actor), Liam Dunn (actor), Joe Di Reda (actor), Ted Eccles (actor), Paul Clemens (actor), Denise Nickerson (actress), Rachel Bard (actress), Rob Berger (actor), Tannis G. Montgomery (actress), Victoria Huxtable (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Lee Phelps (actor), Pedro Regas (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Reed Howes (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), George Magrill (actor), Donald Meek (actor), Steve Pendleton (actor), Edwin Stanley (actor),
Plot: Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those at the New York Star, which happens to employ his ex-girlfriend Mary Bradley. But when Mary is kidnapped while thinking she is getting a scoop on a big story, Eddie and Mary, (ie. the print media and the radio media), must work together to rescue her.
Keywords: 1930s, announcer, archive-footage, b-movie, backpack-radio, barroom, blackmail, body-in-trunk, broadcasting, cigarette-smokingThe writer reads from Keeping On Keeping On, his new collection of prose, following Writing Home and Untold Stories. It includes reflections on his collaboration with Nicholas Hytner, a comic radio play, and his diaries of 2005-2015, a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (including The Habit of Art), a double bill in the West End, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.
Melvyn Bragg Interviews the Iconic Writer, Playwright 2005
Alan Bennett reads his 2016 diary from the London Review of Books. Read it here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n01/alan-bennett/diary Subscribe to the LRB and get up to 75% off the cover price: https://www.mylrb.co.uk/ ABOUT THE LRB The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and...
Paul Merton Interviews Alex Jennings & Alan Bennett. For more go to ----------
Alan Bennett joins Nick Hytner to discuss his earliest work, their many collaborations and Bennett's illustrious career as a playwright. Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/nationaltheatre
Alan Bennett play first shown on ITV in 1978 http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/570641
Talking Heads Monologue by Alan Bennett
Programme website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0441vfk As part of its 50th birthday celebrations, BBC Two is allowing all-areas access to their precious comedy vaults. Eric Idle talks about Alan Bennett's lost comedy programme 'On The Margin'.
Harry and Paul's - Story of the Twos Talking Heads of State With Alan Bennett
The writer reads from Keeping On Keeping On, his new collection of prose, following Writing Home and Untold Stories. It includes reflections on his collaboration with Nicholas Hytner, a comic radio play, and his diaries of 2005-2015, a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (including The Habit of Art), a double bill in the West End, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.
Melvyn Bragg Interviews the Iconic Writer, Playwright 2005
Alan Bennett reads his 2016 diary from the London Review of Books. Read it here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n01/alan-bennett/diary Subscribe to the LRB and get up to 75% off the cover price: https://www.mylrb.co.uk/ ABOUT THE LRB The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and...
Alan Bennett joins Nick Hytner to discuss his earliest work, their many collaborations and Bennett's illustrious career as a playwright. Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/nationaltheatre
Alan Bennett play first shown on ITV in 1978 http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/570641
Talking Heads Monologue by Alan Bennett
Eileen Atkins stars as Celia, a cautious seller of old furniture and clocks, in Alan Bennett's spellbinding monologue The Hand of God, a perfectly paced 32-minute gem. Filmed in half-a-dozen simple scenes set in a modest antiques shop, the story involves Celia's daily battle to keep the stock moving. Celia is an antiques dealer who just about manages to make a living but with stock ever harder to come by. Then one day Celia lucks into a Good Samaritan relationship with Miss Ventriss, a dying woman who owns a home stocked with treasures. It's almost more than Celia's honest, if avaricious, conscience can bear. As in many of Bennett's pieces, the story develops in a miraculous direction that gives it the taut impact of a fable -- or at least the sober moral of a cautionary tale. YOU MUST HOW...
Alan Bennett looks at the music surrounding the court of Louis XIV
a woman of no importance 1982 with patricia routledge monologue very sad story
Melvyn Bragg Interviews the Iconic Writer, Playwright 2005
Paul Merton Interviews Alex Jennings & Alan Bennett. For more go to ----------
Alan Bennett joins Nick Hytner to discuss his earliest work, their many collaborations and Bennett's illustrious career as a playwright. Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/nationaltheatre
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British playwright Alan Bennett on his celebrated play, THE HISTORY BOYS, a thought-provoking comedy about eight bright, funny students trying to get into good colleges. He also discusses his witty and moving new memoir, UNTOLD STORIES. Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins. The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Th...
The perennial playwright reflects on his career with Nicholas Hytner, discussing work from 1991 to the present day. Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/nationaltheatre
Alan Bennett chooses his favourite television programmes
The writer reads from Keeping On Keeping On, his new collection of prose, following Writing Home and Untold Stories. It includes reflections on his collaboration with Nicholas Hytner, a comic radio play, and his diaries of 2005-2015, a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (including The Habit of Art), a double bill in the West End, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.
An interview of the "Beyond the Fringe" stars with Michael Parkinson.
Alan Bennett reads his essay on private education for the London Review of Books. Read the essay here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n12/alan-bennett/fair-play ABOUT THE LRB Since 1979, the London Review of Books has stood up for the tradition of the literary and intellectual essay in English. Each issue contains up to 15 long reviews and essays by academics, writers and journalists. There are also shorter art and film reviews, as well as poems and a lively letters page. A typical issue moves through political commentary to science or ancient history by way of literary criticism and social anthropology. So, for example, an issue can open with a piece on the rhetoric of war, move on to reassessing the reputation of Pythagoras, follow that with articles on the situation in Iraq, the 19th-centu...
The writer reads from Keeping On Keeping On, his new collection of prose, following Writing Home and Untold Stories. It includes reflections on his collaboration with Nicholas Hytner, a comic radio play, and his diaries of 2005-2015, a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (including The Habit of Art), a double bill in the West End, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.
Melvyn Bragg Interviews the Iconic Writer, Playwright 2005
Alan Bennett reads his 2016 diary from the London Review of Books. Read it here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n01/alan-bennett/diary Subscribe to the LRB and get up to 75% off the cover price: https://www.mylrb.co.uk/ ABOUT THE LRB The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and...
Paul Merton Interviews Alex Jennings & Alan Bennett. For more go to ----------
Alan Bennett joins Nick Hytner to discuss his earliest work, their many collaborations and Bennett's illustrious career as a playwright. Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/nationaltheatre
Alan Bennett play first shown on ITV in 1978 http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/570641
Talking Heads Monologue by Alan Bennett
Programme website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0441vfk As part of its 50th birthday celebrations, BBC Two is allowing all-areas access to their precious comedy vaults. Eric Idle talks about Alan Bennett's lost comedy programme 'On The Margin'.
Harry and Paul's - Story of the Twos Talking Heads of State With Alan Bennett
The writer reads from Keeping On Keeping On, his new collection of prose, following Writing Home and Untold Stories. It includes reflections on his collaboration with Nicholas Hytner, a comic radio play, and his diaries of 2005-2015, a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (including The Habit of Art), a double bill in the West End, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.
Melvyn Bragg Interviews the Iconic Writer, Playwright 2005
Alan Bennett reads his 2016 diary from the London Review of Books. Read it here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n01/alan-bennett/diary Subscribe to the LRB and get up to 75% off the cover price: https://www.mylrb.co.uk/ ABOUT THE LRB The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and...
Alan Bennett joins Nick Hytner to discuss his earliest work, their many collaborations and Bennett's illustrious career as a playwright. Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/nationaltheatre
Alan Bennett play first shown on ITV in 1978 http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/570641
Talking Heads Monologue by Alan Bennett
Eileen Atkins stars as Celia, a cautious seller of old furniture and clocks, in Alan Bennett's spellbinding monologue The Hand of God, a perfectly paced 32-minute gem. Filmed in half-a-dozen simple scenes set in a modest antiques shop, the story involves Celia's daily battle to keep the stock moving. Celia is an antiques dealer who just about manages to make a living but with stock ever harder to come by. Then one day Celia lucks into a Good Samaritan relationship with Miss Ventriss, a dying woman who owns a home stocked with treasures. It's almost more than Celia's honest, if avaricious, conscience can bear. As in many of Bennett's pieces, the story develops in a miraculous direction that gives it the taut impact of a fable -- or at least the sober moral of a cautionary tale. YOU MUST HOW...
Alan Bennett looks at the music surrounding the court of Louis XIV
a woman of no importance 1982 with patricia routledge monologue very sad story