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ID: 41318
Title: History Boys
Author: Alan Bennett
Narrator: Clive Merrison, Frances De La Tour, Full Cast , Richard Griffiths
Format: Unabridged
Length: 02:30:00
Language: English
Release date: 04-01-06
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music
Summary:
After a sell-out national tour and an extended stage run, Alan Bennetts phenomenally successful play transferred to BBC Radio 3, with Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison and Frances de la Tour starring as part of the National Theatre cast. At a boys grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is getting out, starting university and starting life. At the heart of The History Boys are four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and school: Hector, an eccentric English teacher with no interest in exams; Irwin, a young supply teacher who sees history as entertainment; Mrs Lintott, a traditionalist, who teaches history, not histrionics; and a Headmaster obsessed with results. Described as the richest play Bennett has ever written (Financial Times), staff-room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence collide in an intensely moving and thought-provoking play. Winner of the Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics Circle and South Bank Show Awards for Best New Play. A superb, life-enhancing play Guardian.
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