I adore Alan Bennett, but haven't read much of his work - can anyone recommend anything to me? xx

[Jujubean77]

I have studied Talking Heads that's it....

TIA

The Uncommon Reader is fab!

Agree re. the Uncommon Reader also Writing Home is good and has the original Lady in the Van story in it.

Great will buy it today- any more?

I can recommend anything he has ever written - you can't go wrong with any of it.

Absolutely agree with the others, Writing Home and Untold Stories are really worth it for the diaries and various articles, gives you a lot of insight into the fiction. Also really recommend Uncommon Reader as a good starting point, as well as Four Stories - 4 short stories published together recently.

His readings of his own stuff are really enjoyable too (its the pronounciation that adds so much to it) and his readings of classic children stories too.

Have you done Talking Heads 2 as well? Just as good, very dark.

Always amazes me that media portray him as cuddly as I find a lot of his stuff brutally painfully sad, like Waiting for the Telegram.

def. Writing Home and Lady in the Van - I love,love,love AB

agree about hearing him read is own stuff - I had Writing Home on tape years ago - loved to hear about mam at Weston - sad too. His reading of Winnie the Pooh is wonderful,Eeyore is brilliant !

the uncommon reader is excellent!