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Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose. In this enchanting pair of programmes from 1991 and 1996, Dame Judi Dench and husband Michael Williams shared an eclectic selection of pieces that they loved, admired or simply found entertaining.

Presided over by the lofty Mrs McBryde, Hill Topp House is a superior council home for the elderly. Among the unforgettable cast of staff and residents there's Mr Peckover the deluded archaeologist, Phyllis the knitter, Mr Cresswell the ex-cruise ship hairdresser, the enterprising Mrs Foss and Mr Jimson the chiropodist. Covid is the cause of fatalities and the source of darkly comic confusion, but it's also the key to liberation.

Chi accetterebbe mai di ospitare per diciotto anni nel giardino di casa propria una anziana barbona e il furgone debordante di rifiuti che ne costituisce il domicilio? Oltretutto Miss Shepherd non è una vecchina che susciti tenerezza: è grande e grossa, scontrosa, bislacca, poco incline alla gratitudine. Porta una sottana fatta di stracci per la polvere, occhiali da sole verdi e, a mo’ di cappello, un cestino di paglia ottagonale. Si fa scarrozzare per la città su una sedia a rotelle ed emana un insopportabile fetore. Chi mai accetterebbe una così perturbante prossimità?

Die Hunde sind schuld. Beim Spaziergang mit der Queen rennen sie los, um den allwöchentlich in einem der Palasthöfe parkenden Bücherbus der Bezirksbibliothek anzukläffen. "Ma’am" ist zu gut erzogen, um sich nicht bei dem Bibliothekar zu entschuldigen, leiht sich ebenfalls aus Höflichkeit ein Buch aus - und kommt auf den Geschmack. Von da an deckt sie sich jede Woche mit Lesestoff ein.

Non era rimasto nulla, niente di niente. Non solo i gioielli: i ladri si erano portati via proprio tutto, forno con arrosto, moquette, abiti e persino il rotolo della carta igienica. Un appartamento completamente ripulito è quello che si trovano di fronte i signori Ransome al rientro da una serata all'opera; un riazzeramento della vita che porta l'agiato avvocato londinese e la sua pacata signora a reazioni esilaranti e diametralmente opposte. E ancora una volta Bennett si conferma maestro del comico e dell'arte del narrare.

This unique anthology of Alan Bennet's BBC radio and television work features extracts from his diaries and readings, as well as tributes to friends Russell Harty and Peter Cook.

Mit knochentrockenem britischem Humor erzählt Bennett die Geschichte eines englischen Middle class-Ehepaars, das vom Opernbesuch nach Hause kommt und seine Wohnung vollkommen leer vorfindet. Mit dem Verlust der Einrichtung aus zweiunddreißig Ehejahren tun sich ungeahnte Möglichkeiten auf... Mozart spielte in ihrer Ehe eine wichtige Rolle. Sie hatten keine Kinder, und ohne Mozart hätten sie sich wahrscheinlich schon vor Jahren getrennt.

"No sex please, we're British!" Wem diese Reaktion auf kontinentale Frivolitäten nie glaubhaft erschien, der findet hier seine Bestätigung: Alan Bennett berichtet, wie verlässliche Untertanen der Königin auf unerwarteten Gebieten zu Entdeckern werden und sich unziemlichen Gelüsten hingeben. Er beleuchtet ungeahnte dunkle Seiten im Liebesleben seiner Landsleute und belegt anschaulich, dass britische Skurrilität und lustvolle Ausschweifungen - überraschende Wendung inklusive - einander nicht ausschließen.

Cosa succede quando la regina Elisabetta II scopre casualmente il piacere della lettura? Quando Sua Maestà, per finire in pace un libro, arriva in ritardo a tutti gli appuntamenti ufficiali? Scene esilaranti, descritte con ironia e raffinatezza, che si concludono con un grande colpo di scena finale.

Überwacht von einem unbestechlichen Gesandten der übergeordneten Kirchenbehörde, zelebriert Pater Jolliffe einen Gedenkgottesdienst für den Bettgefährten der beautiful people von London, einen auch ihm selbst wohlbekannten Mann. Unerwartete Enthüllungen der versammelten Hinterbliebenen sorgen dafür, dass die traurige Zeremonie einen rasanten Wandel durchläuft.

One spring morning, Mole surfaces into the sunlight and warm grass of a great meadow. Rambling busily along the hedgerows, he comes to the edge of a river. Mole is entranced. Here on the river bank he meets the Water Rat. He meets Ratty's friends: Badger who lives in the Wild Wood and the incorrigible Toad of Toad Hall. A timeless tale of waterside Britain that has been loved by generations of children and acclaimed as a classic. Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this dramatization for BBC Radio 4.

Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.

A radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's short autobiographical play, originally directed by Nicholas Hytner for the National Theatre. Alan looks back on his early life with affection and sadness, revisiting some of the themes and conversations of his memoir 'A Life Like other People's'. Both he and his mother are seduced by the idea that other people's lives are much richer and fulfilling than their own.

Alan Bennett's three classic BBC Radio full-cast dramas: Kafka's Dick, Forty Years On, and An Englishman Abroad.

This splendid title showcases the combined talents of Alan Bennett, one of our foremost dramatists and writers, and Thora Hird, the celebrated and much-loved actor who died in 2003. It features an exclusive and unique recording, The Last of the Sun, that Thora made for BBC Audiobooks a couple of months before her death.

Two unexpected tales written and read by the best-selling author of The Uncommon Reader, Untold Stories and The History Boys."The Greening of Mrs Donaldson" - Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more stimulating…

Produced by Sydney Lotterby of Yes Minister and Porridge fame. Each instalment featured a mixture of sketches (some foreshadowing Bennett's subsequent television dramas, others mocking television clichés, such as documentaries about working-class Northern writers and discussion programmes featuring pretentious critics). This is a never before broadcast compilation of sketches and extracts from the TV series before the tapes where wiped.

The humorous and moving tale of Miss Shepherd, an eccentric old lady who, by a bizarre series of twists and turns, lived in the author's garden for many years. Alan Bennett reads his own acclaimed work, recently adapted as a West End smash hit starring Maggie Smith as the eccentric old lady.