Alan Bennett: Stories: Read by Alan Bennett Audiobook (Free)

A unique collection of eight Alan Bennett tales, read by the author. Alan Bennett is among Britain’s best-loved authors and an acclaimed storyteller. This special compilation contains eight of his greatest tales, collected together for the very first time.

Here’s his celebrated, iconic memoir THE GIRL in the Vehicle; as well as two fascinating autobiographical accounts of his family members and youth. Uncle Clarence sees Bennett visiting the grave of a relative who passed away in Flanders in 1917; while in Hymn about Alan Bennett: Tales: Read by Alan Bennett he joins causes with composer George Fenton and the Medici String Quartet to explore his musical remembrances.

Bennett’s incisive, acute observations glimmer through in his fiction too, with wry, moving and darkly humorous meditations on loss of life (Father! Father! Burning Bright and The Laying On of Hands), sex (The Shielding of Mrs Forbes) and middle-age ennui (The Clothing They Stood Up In). His present for affectionate satire reaches its pinnacle in The Uncommon Reader, a wonderful tale where the Queen discovers the pleasures of literature.

Poignant, compassionate, wise and witty, the stories included are The Female in the Van, Uncle Clarence, The Clothes They Stood Up In, Dad! Father! Burning Shiny, Hymn, The Laying On of Hands, The Unusual Reader and The Shielding of Mrs Forbes. Duration: 13 hours approx.