Forty Years On
Author : Alan Bennett
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 1 hour 35 minutes
Categories : Dramatizations
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The Headmaster has been at Albion House for fifty years, man and boy. Now he is retiring and tal<es part in the end-of-year entertainment for the last time. Entitled Speak For England, Arthur, It weaves together a multi-generational story of England: the glorious era at the turn of the century, when the summers were always golden: the fast-living inter-war years peopled by the Bloomsbury Group: and the growing cynicism of a country facing a second world war with the scars of the first still fresh in their memories.
Tongue-in-cheek, the play-within-a-play prompts an outraged response from the Headmaster, who can only see his beloved standards being mocked. Yet within the parody lies an almost painful nostalgia for a more peaceful age and the timeless misunderstanding of one generation by another.
Clever, funny and poignant, Alan Bennett's masterful play is rightly regarded as a modern classic.
Written By
Alan Bennett
First Broadcast
BBC Radio 4
28 August 2000
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