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 : Alan Bennett
Narrated By : Alan Bennett
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours 20 minutes
Categories : Comedy Comedy Modern Classics
Our Price : $18.49
A bizarre recollection of the events and major turning points in the life of the author; Alan Bennett. An incredibly moving piece that will win your heart... More info...
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Written By : Michael Palin
Narrated By : Michael Palin
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
Runtime : 4 hours
Categories : Biographical Comedy TV & Film Biographical
Our Price : $16.99
MICHAEL PALIN's diaries begin in the late 1960s and tell how Python emerged and triumphed. Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the group then proceeded to tour in the United States and Canada.. More info...
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Written By : Russell Davies
Narrated By : Various
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours
Categories : Comedy TV & Film British Biographical
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Two tributes to one of the greatest comics of our time, presented by Denis Norden and Paul Merton More info...
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Written By : Alan Titchmarsh
Narrated By : Alan Titchmarsh
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Runtime : 2 hours
Categories : Autobiography Biographical Comedy
Our Price : $29.61 $14.25
With the engaging charm, warm humour and down-to-earth style that has made him Britain's favourite television gardener and a popular TV presenter, Alan Titchmarsh has now written 'a touch of the memoi More info...
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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