
Alan Bennett: Diaries
- Author Alan Bennett
- Narrator Alan Bennett
- Publisher BBC Audio
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 9 hours and 4 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: writers, Biography and non-fiction prose, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Memoirs.
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What to expect
Classic memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter
Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs brings together for the first time Telling Tales, Diaries: 1980-1990, the autobiographical section of Untold Stories, which covers the period 1997-2004, and Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries 2005-2014.
In his earliest collection of diaries, Alan Bennett offers a fascinating insight into his life in the eighties, working on location for his early films and enjoying life at home in Camden. In the diaries of Untold Stories, he enjoys the simple pleasures of nature and wonders about the state of religion and politics at the end of the twentieth century. In Keeping On Keeping On, he looks back at a busy decade that saw him write four highly acclaimed plays, reflects on his life with his partner, Rupert Thomas, and considers his lately found status as 'kindly, cosy and essentially harmless'. Telling Tales, meanwhile, provides ten childhood snapshots and reminiscences about his early years-charting his development from a schoolboy in Leeds to a doubtful agnostic teen, as well as his undergraduate life at the University of Oxford.
With wit, wisdom, sharp social commentary and perceptive impressions, Alan Bennett's memoirs and diaries are a joy to discover, and a delight to hear again. For those who want to listen to Alan Bennett read Untold Stories in its complete form, Alan Bennett: Untold Stories is also available from BBC Audio.
Originally broadcast on Radio 4:
4 June - 15 June 2001 (Telling Tales)
10 October - 14 October 1994 (Diaries 1980-1990)
10 October - 14 October 2005 (Untold Stories)
24 October - 4 November 2016 (Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries, 2005-2014)
Production credits
Read by Alan Bennett
Music by George Fenton
Produced by Liz Allard (Telling Tales)
Abridged by Pat McLoughlin
Produced by Gillian Hush (Diaries 1980-1990)
Abridged and produced by Gordon House (Untold Stories)
Abridged and produced by Gordon House (Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries, 2005-2014)
© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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