History Boys, The
Author : Alan Bennett
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Dramatizations
Drama
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Alan Bennett's new, award-winning play as heard on BBC Radio 3 features the National Theatre cast
'A superb, life-enhancing play' Guardian
'Intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny' Daily Telegraph
After a sell-out national tour and an extended stage run, Alan Bennett's phenomenally successful play transfers to BBC Radio 3. Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison and Frances de la Tour star as part of the National Theatre cast.
At a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is getting out, starting university - and starting life.
At the heart of The History Boys are four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and school: Hector, an eccentric English teacher with no interest in exams; Irwin, a young supply teacher who sees history as'entertainment'; Mrs Lintott,a traditionalist, who teaches 'history, not histrionics'; and a Headmaster obsessed with results.
Described as 'the richest play Bennett has ever written'(Financial Times), staff-room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence collide in an intensely moving and thought-provoking play.
Winner of the Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics' Circle and South Bank Show Awards for Best New Play.
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Cockney's Kipling, A
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Performed By : David Ian Davies
Publisher : One Voice Recordings
Runtime : 27 minutes
Categories : Poetry
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One Voice Recordings presents this fine collection of ten of Rudyard Kiplings most enduring poetic works, recited in the wonderful Cockney lilt by renowned voice actor David Ian Davies. Titles include The Ladies, The Liner She's a Lady, Danny Deever, The Bell Buoy, Female of the Species, A Smuggler's Song, Power of the Dog, Gunga Din, Mandalay, and Kipling's 'If'.
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