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Alan Bennett - Forty Years On

Comedy: Satire

31/12/2000

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Alan Bennett - Forty Years On

Alan Bennett stars in his own darkly comic requiem for a lost England.

Alan Bennett stars in his own darkly comic requiem for a lost England. With Eleanor Bron, Adam Godley and Robert Bathurst. From August 2000.

Albion House's retiring headmaster is outraged by the school's traditional end-of-year play which is being produced by his successor. 

The headmaster can only see his beloved standards being mocked. Yet within the parody lies a painful nostalgia for a more peaceful, vanished age.

Alan Bennett's acclaimed satirical comedy. 

Starring Alan Bennett as the Headmaster, Eleanor Bron as Matron, Robert Bathurst as Franklin, Adam Godley as Tempest, Auriol Smith as Miss Nisbitt, Nicholas Boulton as the Teacher, Ilan Goodman as the Head Boy and Gavin Muir as the Radio Voice.

Other parts played by Hassan Akram. Luke Blackall. Mark Lowen, Nicholas Netzgen, Tom Milner, Marcus Mumford, Hiten Pankhania, Matthew Poulson, Jack Schennum, Ripton Scott, Simon Spiro and other pupils from King's College School, Wimbledon. 

Choir boys: Dominic Conte and Luke Eastman. 

Original music by Colin Sell, performed by members of the East 15 Acting School. 

Piano: Pete Ringrose.

Director: Gordon House

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.

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