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Passed so far:
Dinner at Noon
Our Winnie
A Visit from Miss Protheroe
An Englishman Abroad
102 Boulevard Haussmann
Portrait or Bust
The Insurance Man
A Day Out
A Question of Attribution
Sunset Across the Bay
A Woman of No Importance
Just looking at the BBFC website, a LOT of Alan Bennett plays have just been passed - it looks like for an Alan Bennett at the BBC box.
I saw many of these about 15 years back when BBC2 had a lengthy Bennett season - and all I can say is about bloody time too!
Passed so far:
Dinner at Noon
Our Winnie
A Visit from Miss Protheroe
An Englishman Abroad
102 Boulevard Haussmann
Portrait or Bust
The Insurance Man
A Day Out
A Question of Attribution
Sunset Across the Bay
A Woman of No Importance
This is excellent news - I'm especially keen to see the Englishman and Attribution again - though if they are part of a massive boxset I won't complain. I just saw The History Boys for the first time, recorded from the BBC-HD channel - what a beautiful piece of work.
A Question Of Attribution is a masterpiece of subtle playwriting.I thought that Prunella Scales was excellent.
Amazon are listing this as a 1 disc release retailing at �23.99 but that can't be right, surely? A late October release looks correct though as Bennett is appearing at the National Theatre in a Platform performance to support the release of the collection alongside the premiere of his new play, A Habit of Art, and the re-issue of his biography.
I wanted to see Intensive Care in the list but it doesn't seem to be a title under consideration - a shame.
Here is the complete confirmed list for the Alan Bennett at the BBC DVD to be released next month.
* A visit from Miss Prothero
* Sunset across the bay
* A day out
* A woman of no Importance
* Our Winnie
* An Englishman abroad
* Dinner at noon
* The insurance man
* 102 Bvd Haussman
* A question of attribution
* Portrait or bust
"Alan Bennett" Alan Bennett At The BBC (DVD) at BBC Shop
name='CEverett135']Here is the complete confirmed list for the Alan Bennett at the BBC DVD to be released next month.
"Alan Bennett" Alan Bennett At The BBC (DVD) at BBC Shop
Thanks for the heads up now the heavy hints about my Christmas present.
Not bad at all for the price and will be a nice addition to the collection; means I can retire my VHS copies of An Englishman Abroad and A Woman of No Importance - great!
I would suggest that perhaps you look on Play.com for purchasing. It's �17.99 on that particular website -- which is rather splendid.
Of course the box-set is long overdue, and "Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is notable by it's absence.
name='CEverett135']I would suggest that perhaps you look on Play.com for purchasing. It's �17.99 on that particular website -- which is rather splendid.
Of course the box-set is long overdue, and "Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is notable by it's absence.
Me I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf is one of my favourites but it's a Thames Production(well certainly ITV) not the Beeb.
Moviemail is giving this a release date of 26th October (and they also have it for �17.99)
�17.99 for all these Alan Bennett treasures is well worth it.
Mine's been posted out ... although not quite sure when it will arrive as it's coming Royal Mail. Looking forward to it as have never seen some of the titles and wanted to.
I've never seen "A Question of Attribution" - looking forward to it. "An Englishman Abroad" is a long time favourite and the DVD has to be better than my taped-from-TV version.
On the subject of spies, we're watching "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" here at the moment - every bit as good as I remembered. "Smiley's People" is next. Both only 5.98 (two-disc sets) at Amazon.
And on the subject of Alan Bennett, the BBC has (very) belatedly issued the surviving audio from "On the Margin". The only line I can remember after all these years is his antique dealer emerging from the rear of the shop with: "You must excuse my hands, I've just been stripping a tallboy".
I take the above post back - my copy is here. Four disc set but minimalist packaging and no booklet, which is slightly disappointing but doesn't detract from the content.
name='didi-5']I take the above post back - my copy is here. Four disc set but minimalist packaging and no booklet, which is slightly disappointing but doesn't detract from the content.
My long-awaited set arrived yesterday and quite agree with the above posting - the details of the four discs is only on the back of the case and in miniscule print. We expect more from the BBC - a Criterion-style booklet, full cast and credits, brief synopsis, essays etc. But if the lacklustre DG Mark Thompson can command �800,000 a year, I suppose they have to economise somewhere . . .
I watched A Question of Attribution - brilliant, witty, slyly subversive, with James Fox queening it up superbly. A slightly fuzzy picture reveals the 16mm origins - I'm assuming it's 16mm anyway.
To be fair, I *think* it was very attractively priced, the Bennett intros are interesting and informative (from memory: "...he said 'you're very skimpy with your scampi'. I wrote it down, but I haven't been able to use it..."), and being able to watch the A Day Out again was worth the price of the set alone. Possibly my release of the year.
name='John Hodson']To be fair, I *think* it was very attractively priced, the Bennett intros are interesting and informative (from memory: "...he said 'you're very skimpy with your scampi'. I wrote it down, but I haven't been able to use it..."), and being able to watch the A Day Out again was worth the price of the set alone. Possibly my release of the year.
Agree 100% about this being the release of the year - and what made it for me were the Alan Bennett intros - loved the "scampi" story and also the one about Soviet spy and art historian/tutor Anthony Blunt being caught at a party snogging first a girl, and later a guy and being accosted by one of his pupils "Sir Anthony, you're so fickle" - Reply "Many a fickle makes a fuckle"! Priceless.
Alistair
After waiting an eternity to see some/most of these Bennetts again, the BBC have decided to promote the DVD boxset by repeating some/most on some/most BBC channels. Fuckle that.
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