JONATHAN MILLER: LOST MEMORIES
He was forever popping up here, there and, yes, everywhere, during those long decades from the 1960s on, ever keen to run away with unstoppable fluency, eloquence and erudition on any subject that cam ...
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DEAD RINGERS
With so much on offer from TV, film networks and streams of online platforms, radio programmes often get left in the dust. Yet there’s outstandingly good entertainment to be had riding your ears ...
Robert Tanitch reviews Talking Heads on BBC iPlayer.
The success of Alan Bennett’s monologue, A Woman of No Importance, with an award-winning performance by Patricia Routledge in 1982, encouraged Bennett to write more monologues for television. TALKING ...
Robert Tanitch reviews The Madness of George III on line
Alan Bennett is on record as saying to Nicholas Hytner, who directed the premiere at the National Theatre in 1991 that he thought The Madness of George III unstageable. The text, with its numerous sho ...