Untold Stories

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The diary entries are for the most part witty and observant, though some verge on the dull. Why whinge about Classic FM? Just turn to Radio 3! The following are my favourite entries. It’s September 97 and the British people demand the Queen joins in the hysterical public grief after Diana’s death. The writer recalls tales of his Yorkshire family. Visiting his mother's sister, she always shared her military service memories. a lovely read, one that you can't help but do in Bennett's broad Yorkshire accent. The stories about his parents are very moving as is his bowel cancer. Bennett 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 and later a Special Tony Award. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full time, his first stage play, Forty Years On, being produced in 1968. He also became known for writing dramatic monologues Talking Heads which ran in 1988, and 1999 on BBC1 earning a British Academy Television Award. In the autobiographical sketches which form a large part of the book Bennett wrote openly for the first time about his bisexuality. Previously Bennett had referred to questions about his sexuality as like asking a man who has just crawled across the Sahara desert to choose between Perrier or Malvern mineral water. [24]

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We publish a Literature Newsletter when we have news and features on UK and international literature, plus opportunities for the industry to share. Untold Stories by Alan Bennett is something of a pot pourri. It starts with an autobiographical exploration of social and family origins, and then moves on to include occasional pieces on travel, architecture and art, copious diaries from 1996 to 2004, reflections on previous and current work and essays on contemporaries, educational experience and culture. The fact that it all hangs together beautifully is a result of its author’s consummate skills, both linguistic and perceptive. I am an Allan Bennett fan so when I came across these I was only to happy,,listening to this audiobook is a great medium to here stories. The much-loved writer reads tales of his Yorkshire family. Retiring to a village in the Dales, his mam is hugely intimidated. His elegiac records of provincial lives and aspects of Englishness which are on the verge of disappearance has led to his being linked in the public mind with Philip Larkin, not least because Bennett has read and recorded Larkin's verse. But Untold Stories actually reveals how sharply Bennett dissents from the poet. Larkin comes up repeatedly; his poetic achievement, on the one hand, crisply and brilliantly analysed, on the other, his malignant depressiveness revealed.

Noël Coward / Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt / New York Shakespeare Festival / Barbra Streisand (1970) And then there are the lit crits and presentations. They are mostly good, but they miss something when shorn of their contexts. So the pieces on 'The Lady In The Van' or 'The History Boys' don't mean much if you haven't seen the shows. Again, some explanation (or an editor) is required. There is much that clearly distresses Bennett about modern Britain, particularly the way that it educates its young, and the encroachment of the market on services such as libraries and galleries. But he disassociates himself firmly from Larkin's fastidious despair. His is a generous sadness; he wants what was good about the past to be available still, and fears that it is not. While he makes it clear that he sees the child of today as, in significant ways, disadvantaged, he also sees that the children themselves are as good as ever. Rosemary Harris / Marin Mazzie / Terrence McNally / Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb / Harold Wheeler (2019) Alan Bennett contemporary Hamlet 'Denmark Hill' heading for Radio 4". Radio Times . Retrieved 21 October 2013.

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Alan Bennett’s diffident, often shy public persona has arguably been crucial to his sustained and ever-growing success, but any perceived aura of cosiness belies a sharpness of intellect and wit that has proved adept at dissecting the mores of the English and their institutions across a variety of genres. And there’s no shame in taking your time with it, because it’s that kind of read. You could even dip in and out of it if you wanted to, although I’d advise against it. The problem with doing that is that you’d never know when you finished, and there’d also be a risk that you’d find yourself re-reading something that you’d already read.His first work for television was a sketch show, On the Margin, and he also wrote the television series Fortunes of War. His first television play was A Day Out, followed by several more television plays, five for the BBC, published as Objects of Affection and Other Plays for TV (1982),and five for London Weekend Television, published as The Writer in Disguise (1985). His two series of monologues for television, Talking Heads I (1988) and Talking Heads 2 (1998), proved Bennett to be the master of television monologue, a genre he had first anticipated in A Woman Of No Importance (1982) - his first play starring a single actress. Part of Bennett's appeal is that of the secondary talents of any generation, augmented, I don't doubt, by the fact that this is best I can hope for as well. Bennett, Alan (1934- ): Film and TV Credits | Screenonline". www.screenonline.org.uk . Retrieved 28 May 2023. Bennett gained acclaim with his various plays at the Royal National Theatre. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Play for Single Spies in 1990. Next, he made his breakthrough with the play The Madness of George III in 1992. For this play, he received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. The following year he staged a theatrical production of the BBC series Talking Heads in 1992. He continued receiving acclaim for his plays The Lady in the Van in 1999, The History Boys in 2004, and The Habit of Art in 2009. He won his second Tony Award for Best Play for The History Boys in 2005. The following plays were later adapted into films, The Madness of King George (1994), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, The History Boys (2005), and The Lady in the Van (2015). Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9948 Ocr_module_version 0.0.21 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary_edition

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Birthday boy" – Blake Morrison salutes Alan Bennett as the writer approaches his 75th birthday The Guardian, 7 May 2009 The Broadway Advocacy Coalition / David Byrne's American Utopia / Freestyle Love Supreme / Graciela Daniele (2021)

Bennett was portrayed by Harry Enfield as Stalin, in an episode of "Talking Heads of State", in BBC Two's 2014 satirical Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos. [36] urn:lcp:untoldstories0000benn:lcpdf:17240aa2-2604-4d70-9697-b211e260dc71 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier untoldstories0000benn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4cp3xr1v Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780571228317