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Alan Bennett: Keeping On Keeping On
Alan Bennett: Keeping On Keeping On

Alan Bennett: Keeping On Keeping On

Diaries 2005-2014

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

1 Pages, 4.92 x 5.59

CD, $26.95 (US $26.95)

Publication Date: November 2016

ISBN 9781785297014

Rights: US

BBC Books (Nov 2016)
BBC Audio

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Overview

Alan Bennett reads the latest installment of his diaries, as heard on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Following on from Alan Bennett's bestselling, award-winning prose collections Writing Home and Untold Stories, Keeping On Keeping On is a third anthology featuring his unique observations, recollections, and reminiscences. At its heart is his latest published collection of diaries. In these entries, covering the years 2005 to 2014, Bennett looks back on a packed decade that included writing four highly-acclaimed plays—The Habit of Art, People, Hymn, and Cocktail Sticks, all of which premiered at the National Theatre—as well as the screenplays for the hit films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. In addition, he reflects on his 25 years of friendship and collaboration with director Nicholas Hytner, life with his partner Rupert Thomas and, radical views notwithstanding, his status as "kindly, cosy and essentially harmless." Packed with perceptive impressions of people and places, sharp social commentary, expressive description, and delightful jokes, this irresistible record of life according to Alan Bennett is a treasury of wisdom and insight.

Author Biography

Alan Bennett's television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, and the South Bank Award.