Alan Bennett at the BBC

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A Day Out
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Alan Bennett's first television play, directed in black and white in 1972 by Stephen Frears. A charming comedy set in Edwardian Yorkshire, it follows a cycling club on a day out. A .. show full overview
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Sunset Across the Bay
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An elderly couple from Leeds retire to live on the seaside in Morecambe, but cannot adjust to their new surroundings.
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A Visit from Miss Prothero
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Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former .. show full overview
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A Woman of No Importance
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Award-winning one-woman drama starring Patricia Routledge. What do Miss Schofield and the gang find to talk about at their table in the canteen? Yesterday they were discussing the rash .. show full overview
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Our Winnie
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Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie's father is buried. Also in the cemetery are two art .. show full overview
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An Englishman Abroad
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It is 1958, and in a squalid flat in Moscow, double-agent Guy Burgess is hiding from the world. When he is visited by actress Coral Browne, he is overjoyed to see someone from his former .. show full overview
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The Insurance Man
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A dye worker, dismissed from his job because of a suspicious rash, finds himself caught up in the nightmarish bureaucracy of an insurance company, one of whose employees is Franz Kafka.
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Dinner at Noon
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In the setting of the Crown Hotel in Harrogate, with its leisure breaks and conference facilities, Alan Bennett reflects on the subject of class.
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102 Boulevard Haussmann
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In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.
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A Question of Attribution
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Film version of Alan Bennett's National Theatre hit, directed by John Schlesinger. A witty examination of the thesis that appearances can be deceptive. Sir Anthony Blunt leads a .. show full overview
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Portrait or Bust
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Alan Bennett is very candid relating childhood tales and life views through his then (and now) interpretation of artwork.