The Complete Talking Heads: The classic BBC Radio 4 monologues plus A Woman of No Importance Audiobook (Free)

The entire audio collection of Alan Bennett’s celebrated monologues, published together for the very first time and performed by some of Britain’s best actors

The Talking Heads monologues are widely regarded as among Alan Bennett’s finest dramatic achievements. Initial broadcast on BBC TV and BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s and 1990s, they won a host of honours and huge well-known acclaim, and stay among his most respected functions today.This collection includes all twelve Talking Heads, plus the precursor of about The Complete Talking Heads: The classic BBC Radio 4 monologues and also a Woman of No Importance that series, A Woman of No Importance. Superbly crafted and filled with compassion and wry observation, each story is ripe with the quirky, insightful details that has been Bennett’s trademark. The monologues are:A FEMALE of No Importance (Patricia Routledge); A Chip in the Glucose (Alan Bennett); A FEMALE of Words (Patricia Routledge); Bed Among the Lentils (Anna Massey); Soldiering On (Stephanie Cole); Her Big Possibility (Julie Walters); A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (ThoraHird); Miss Fozzard Sees Her Foot (Patricia Routledge); The Hand of God (Eileen Atkins); Playing Sandwiches (David Haig); THE EXTERIOR Pet (Julie Walters); Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Penelope Wilton) and Waiting for the Telegram (Thora Hird).

Intensely moving, deeply engrossing and extremely entertaining, these spellbinding soliloquies are essential listening.