Alan Bennett: Single Spies: An Englishman Abroad & A Question of Attribution
Author : Alan Bennett
Performed By : Various
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours
Categories : Dramatizations
Biographical
Biographical
British
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A critically-acclaimed double bill of Alan Bennett plays, originally performed at the National Theatre and adapted for BBC Radio 4.
An Englishman Abroad: 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 life in England. Starved for information, Burgess interrogates her about English society gossip, and cajoles her into taking home measurements for a new pinstripe suit from his London tailor...
A Question of Attribution: In 1956, Sir Anthony Blunt – pillar of the Establishment and respected Knight of the Realm – is working as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures.
Perfectly at home in the corridors of Buckingham Palace, he frequently encounters Her Majesty as he works on her paintings, and has a special fondness for one particular Titian.
However, there is one small problem: the painting, like Blunt himself, is a fake. Is the Queen aware that her enigmatic servant might also be other than he seems?
Poignant and moving, these two brand new adaptations feature household names Simon Callow, Brigit Forsyth, Edward Petherbridge and Prunella Scales.
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Guitar: An American Life
Author : Tim Brookes
Performed By : Tim Brookes
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 11 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Music Related
Music Related
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largely untold history.
What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American
icon? The guitar represents freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth,
lost love, and sexuality. The guitar was picked up by everyone, miners and society ladies,
lumberjacks and presidents' wives, Hawaiians, African-Americans, Cajuns, jazz players,
spiritualists, cowboys, and teenagers. In time, it became America's instrument, its
soundtrack.
Tim Brookes explored these ideas while on a quest for his dream guitar that took him to
Vermont's Green Mountains where an amiable curmudgeon master guitarmaker, Rick Davis,
chose a rare piece of cherry wood and went to work with saws and rasps. When Tim wasn't
breathing over Rick's shoulder, he was trying to unravel why the guitar is "wall-to-wall popular
in the United States" and, to a lesser degree, throughout the world.
A regular commentator on National Public Radio's Sunday Weekend Edition, Tim Brookes has also had his work appear in National Geographic, Outside, American History, and Vintage Guitar.
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