Alan Bennet - Talking Heads

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To say that I’m a bit of a Bennett fan is something of an understatement and it was this particular offering that holds the blame! Talking Heads, a set of six monologues, was published and... more

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Bennett’s finest hour?
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13/03/2004

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Advantages Compulsive reading from start to finish.
Disadvantages Only that 2 pages of the introduction were repeated in a later Bennett collection.

To say that I’m a bit of a Bennett fan is something of an understatement and it was this particular offering that holds the blame! Talking Heads, a set of six monologues, was published and televised in 1988 and held captivated a 15 year old with no particular interest in books or plays – it has remained one of my favourite pieces of writing by any author ever since. Not that the ‘stories’ found within the book are plays in the strictest sense of the word. As Bennett (70 in May!) explains in the introduction, a play allows you to see things from the perspective of several featured characters ... more