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

Here is his celebrated, iconic memoir THE GIRL in the Van; aswell as two amazing autobiographical accounts of his family members and child years. Uncle Clarence views Bennett visiting the grave of a relative who died in Flanders in 1917; while in Hymn about Alan Bennett: Tales: Browse by Alan Bennett he joins pushes with composer George Fenton and the Medici String Quartet to explore his musical thoughts.

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

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