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Title: Forty Years On (Dramatized)
Author: Alan Bennett
Narrator: Alan Bennett, Full Cast
Format: Original Recording
Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-03-05
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama
Summary:
The Headmaster has been at Albion House for 50 years, man and boy. Now he is retiring and takes part in the end-of-year entertainment for the last time. Entitled Speak For England, Arthur, it weaves together a multi-generational story of England: the glorious era at the turn of the century, when the summers were always golden; the fast-living inter-war years peopled by the Bloomsbury Group; and the growing cynicism of a country going to war twice in so many decades.
Tongue-in-cheek, the play-within-a-play prompts an outraged response from the Headmaster, who can only see his beloved standards being mocked. Yet within the parody lies an almost-painful nostalgia for a more peaceful age and the timeless misunderstanding of one generation by another.
Clever, funny, and poignant, Alan Bennett's masterful play is rightly regarded as a modern classic.
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