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Talking Heads Book

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 WroeRead More

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  • Amazon

    Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. 'Talking Heads' is regarded as a modern classic. This edition, which contains the collection of 'Talking Heads', as well as his earlier monologue, 'A Woman of No Importance', is a celebration of his work.

  • BookDepository

    Talking Heads : Paperback : Ebury Publishing : 9781846072598 : : 07 Aug 2007 : Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television.

  • 184607259X
  • 9781846072598
  • Alan Bennett
  • 5 July 2007
  • BBC Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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