Ten childhood snapshots from the master of the monologue
A Strip of Blue Proper Names
Our War Eating Out
An Ideal Home Aunt Eveline
A Shy Butcher Unsaid Prayers
Days Out No Mean City
Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are funny, touching and told in his unique style.
Hampered, as he sees it, by a family that never manages to be quite like other families, he recounts his early years in Leeds - 'a place where one learned early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere': there is hiking every Sunday, trips into town and teas in cafes. It's an ordinary childhood; Bennett's father's a butcher, his mother a reader of women's magazines who dreams of coffee mornings and cocktail parties and life 'Down South'.
He re-lives family crises, early pieties and the last of a tradition of musical evenings round the piano, in tales that are told with that wry observation and ironic understatement that has earned Alan Bennett his place in the forefront of contemporary writing.
Written By : Graham McCann
Narrated By : Graham McCann
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Biographical Humor Comedy
Price : $29.61 $14.25
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Written By : Peter Ustinov
Narrated By : Peter Ustinov and John Bird
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 1 hour 10 minutes
Type : Comedy TV & Film Biographical
Price : $13.49
As heard on BBC Radio 4, Peter Ustinov discusses his life and career. View...
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Written By : Alan Bennett
Narrated By : Alan Bennett
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 2 hours 30 minutes
Type : Autobiography Biographical Biographical
Price : $18.49
Untold Stories is a poignant family memoir recalling the marriage of Alan's parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret, an incredible piece... View...
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Written By : Toby Young
Narrated By : Toby Young
Brilliance Audio Inc
Length : 6 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Contemporary
Price : $24.95
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again meets The Bonfire of the Vanities, as told by...a male Bridget Jones? And it all really happened. View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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