Talking Heads 2

Talking Heads 2

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A decade after Alan Bennett's acclaimed first series of Talking Heads comes the eagerly anticipated follow up. Six more compassionate and acutely observed monologues performed by a terrific cast. Patricia Routledge, Julie Walters and Thora Hird all feature for a second time as, again using five women narrators alongside a solitary male, Bennett nags away at his pet obsessi...more
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Ipswichblade
Follow up to the original Talking Heads which I also read this month. Once again very well written and as Bennett himself says more miserable then the original!
Sue
Perfection - a fantastic read.
Ria
Feb 20, 2008 Ria rated it 3 of 5 stars
Recommended to Ria by: My sister Fiona
Some good short monologues in here but in general the quality is not as good as the first Talking heads book. The endings of the stories in this volume are a bit abrupt and doesn't tie the stories up as well as its predessor.
Fiona
this bok is not the same standard as the first.
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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...more
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