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Alan Bennett’s On the Margin
- Author
- Alan Bennett
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Publish Date
- 1 September 2009
- Run Time
- 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Critics Review
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a fascinating and prescient insight into the early work of one of the UK's most important and highly regarded contemporary wordsmiths
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Details
- Author
- Alan Bennett
- Narrator
- Alan Bennett, John Sergeant, Virginia Stride
- Duration
- 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 September 2009
- ISBN
- 9781408438732
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Genre
- Films, cinema, Television, Radio / podcasts
Synopsis
On the Margin was a six part BBC TV satirical comedy sketch show written and performed by Alan Bennett, with journalist and TV presenter John Sergeant and actor Virginia Stride. It was first broadcast in 1966 and was such a critical success that it was repeated twice the following year. Although Alan Bennett - already famous due to Beyond the Fringe - took swipes at contemporary Britain, his love of his country’s cultural heritage always remained. Besides Bennett, the series also featured Yvonne Gillan, Madge Hindle and Roland MacLeod. However, On the Margin sadly became one of the notorious casualties of the BBC’s tape-recycling policies and the series was completely wiped after its final broadcast. Lost audio recordings of the show were rediscovered in 2014, but so far this release is the only existing compilation of On the Margin...
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