The second collection of six individual portraits from the master of the monologue.

Darker and more intense than the first collection, these six stories uncover the secrets behind ordinary suburban lives.

From Patricia Routledge’s Miss Fozzard, whose new chiropodist turns out to be rather peculiar to Eileen Atkin’s portrayal of an antique dealer who lets a masterpieces slip through her fingers, the characters come alive through Bennett’s writing.

These tales of desperation and loneliness are handled with the lightness of touch, compassion and shrewdly observed detailed that have made Alan Bennett one of the country’s best loved writers.

3 hours 20 mins on 2 cassettes