EPISODE
Alan Bennetts Talking Heads - Season 1
New versions of Alan Bennett's much-loved monologues, with some of the best known British performers of their time.
5 March 1976, UK
8 September 1971, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
9 January 1956, Archway, London, England, UK
4 October 1964, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
15 March 1969, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
12 March 1956, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
12 July 1966, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK
14 July 1974, Westhoughton, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
24 September 1950, London, England, UK
11 March 1993, UK
24 May 1960, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
June 29, 2020
Imelda Staunton glitters with equal fury, but her anger runs hot rather than ice cold.
June 26, 2020
The one I particularly hated was one of the two new ones he has written, 'An Ordinary Woman'.
June 26, 2020
Lancashire, who seemed born to do Talking Heads, superbly trod this murky ground, presenting as a woman who knew how wrong and deeply pathetic it was to lust after her son but who still hoped that he might reciprocate.
June 26, 2020
Perhaps the thing that really makes this revival work is that from a thematic perspective it couldn't have come at a better time.
June 26, 2020
There's no one who evokes domestic menace, ordinary savagery, like Staunton.
June 29, 2020
Filmed during lockdown with a fresh cast, they're as masterful, diamond-cut, powerful and painful as they ever were. Plus, Bennett has written two new ones, so that's joy unconfined for fun-loving people like us.
June 26, 2020
Perfect for revival as we negotiate the long, strange summer of Covid-19. But, be warned, in the first two episodes at least, the misery truly is of the high caffeine, black tea and burnt toast variety.
June 26, 2020
It speaks to something that a series once heralded as the very best that telly could offer is now desirable mainly because it's dirt cheap and you can basically do it alone on a smartphone.
June 29, 2020
It ought to have meant tears before bedtime, but Bennett gave us laugh out loud writing besides. That, plus superb performances, make Talking Heads a must see once more.
June 26, 2020
The eyes have it in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, which is in no way to discount this venerable writer's gift for words.
October 14, 2020
Their stories are full of surprises and can be quietly devastating, and the episodes are like jewel boxes that gradually open up to reveal the riches within.
June 26, 2020
They are all deeply about loneliness and isolation in a way that's often hard to make gripping, but has never felt more urgent.
