Double Bill: Forty Years On & A Woman of No Importance

by Alan Bennett (Author and Narrator), John Gielgud (Narrator), Paul Eddington (Narrator)

This version of Alan Bennett's popular stage play, starring Sir John Gielgud, Alan Bennett and Paul Eddington, is paired with one of his famous monologues starring Patricia Routledge as Margaret.

Forty Years on was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 11 August 1973 and A Woman of No Importance on 10 April 1985.

Genres: Audiobook, Plays

3 pages, Audio CD

First published September 12, 1988

About the author

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Alan Bennett is an English author and Tony Award-winning playwright. Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On, was produced in 1968. Many television, stage and radio plays followed, along with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose and broadcasting, and many appearances as an actor. Bennett's lugubrious yet expressive voice (which still bears a slight Leeds accent) and the sharp humour and evident humanity of his writing have made his readings of his own work (especially his autobiographical writing) very popular. His readings of the Winnie the Pooh stories are also widely enjoyed.

Reviews

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A woman of No importance is a 40 minute monologue of an older single woman who has to take time off work as she needs surgery. Very poignant - read by Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping up appearances shown on IPTV).

Forty years on is a series of snapshots of people's opinions over the years from the start of world war II through until after world war II.

Very good to listen to.