A series of short stories, about 10 minutes each, often both funny and poignant told by the writer/actor, about his growing-up in Leeds, UK in WWII and after. The pieces slowly advance from his young boyhood, confused by a war that colored everything, yet also /10(14). Yet the children who long for German bombs to lend their city some wartime glamour; the working class mother who reads Ideal Home and dreams of coffee mornings and cocktail parties; and year-old Alan - a practising Anglican who is deeply distrustful of God - strike a chord within all of us. In fact, it is their very ordinariness that makes these tales so special - combined, of course, with the wry observation . Yet the children who long for German bombs to lend their city some wartime glamour; the working class mother who reads Ideal Home and dreams of coffee mornings and cocktail parties; and year-old Alan - a practising Anglican who is deeply distrustful of God - strike a chord within all of us. In fact, it is their very ordinariness that makes these tales so special - combined, of course, with the wry observation .
Telling Tales: Directed by Peter Hoar. With Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Wunmi Mosaku, Paul Ritter. Vera must put together the pieces of a year-old murder and stop a ruthless killer before he or she strikes again. The phrase could serve as an equally apt description of Bennett's latest book, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories: both tales are about keeping it under, people counterfeiting ideal selves in order to be. Alan Bennett himself features in one of the three discs, telling tales of childhood, and capturing the deepest ambiguities of love, desire, shame, and resilience in family life which will resonate with any viewer born around the same time and/or in the same place or social position.
Telling Tales Out of School With Alan Bennett's History Boys. Read in app. By Campbell Robertson. Ap; Twenty minutes after taking their bows on Friday night, the History Boys were. Telling Tales audiobook (Unabridged) By Alan Bennett Alan Bennett reminisces about his early years from his schooldays to undergraduate life at Oxford University. Telling Tales: With Alan Bennett. Alan Bennett re-lives his upbringing in Leeds in a series of talks, both amusing and touching.
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