❤❤❤ Simply Marvellous Only the Brits can do this. Brilliant

Stephanie Cole ! What a brilliant !

Very movingly sad & true for elderly persons who hold onto their sense of independence.

One of the most brilliantly entertaining people ever!!!

Such different times. I’m 75 and just back from cat sitting in Paris. Cocktails last night and I’m off to Den Haag next week. I remember when we all thought 75 was old

Your admirer is a wise man from Israel Yosef.

Fantastic.

Flawless Thora Hird!❤️

I saw...Roy Cropper, played by David Neilson.

Plus, it's genius how he changes with the characters personalities fluidly and strongly.

Bennett proves he's a fiercely talented writer and actor...it's a joy every time I watch this one and all his plays. Pat Routlage is another favorite actor involved with Bennetts works. I found him in my late 50s,and am I glad I did 😊❤

Beautiful portrayal of an awful person. She knew all the time, but chose to deny it so she could maintain her perfect existence.

She’s one of the generation who cared about what “other people” thought about her ability to keep her house clean. The sad thing was, other people were too busy to even notice or care.

Brilliant, a true understanding of the human condition and how flawed we all are.

Pure joy....Thora Hird & Allan Bennett. = SUBLIME ❤❤❤

Just perfect in its sadness..!

I'm glad I'm not one of this generation! I was born 1942. At 81 I still do two or three hours of mowing jobs every day, cook my own meals every day. No junk food, some weights,. I am not getting old! No one is shunting me off to a Home to live with geriatrics like this one.

She's done up lovely here. I grew up watching her in Waiting for God where she played a nursing home lady.

You'd think those women would be restricted to the Northern lower middle class but they're everywhere. My French grandmother was like that.

I can no longer watch this story whole after the passing of my dear old grandfather, it's just too similar to situations he went through quite a few times in old age because of his insistence in living alone. Painful but necessary message.

A masterpiece!Total magic!Actresses like Thora Hird are few and far between.

I was in a cafe and there was a chip in the sugar....

"Then Jackie, whose nine parts lesbian, says...."

That's the most unsettling Bennett piece I've seen. I'm really not sure what to think other than that he's a genius.

That was heart-rending.

Graham sounds a jealous little mommies boy afraid to share his mum because he has nothing else in his life.

She turned down the help when it came. I guess she felt she rather die than end up in Stafford House.

“Have a tablet!”…

She paid too much attention in the men in her life; and not enough to the women.

This is the fifth episode I've seen. These actresses breathe life into the clever scripts. Superb acting in every way. Only the Brits, only the Brits....

Sure ... yes ... "we have made our bed and we must lie in it." But ... sometimes ... God/Fate/the Universe makes our bed for us. And let me tell you it/they are terrible bed-makers and couldn't even get jobs as maids in a cheap, two-bit flophouse.

It's not just the words. It's the delivery facial expressions everything is top notch 👌

Reminds me of my mum. I have a 78 year old mum and we have just lost my father/her husband (hit by a car) and while she is still very able she is getting slow and frail and stubborn . I’ve said she should sell the house, buy a small villa unit in a retirement community to keep her independence but it also provides a place where people will look out for her…..but no. Despite her not being able to look after the home as well and me being too far. She won’t consider it. Give up her ‘home’. And she certainly won’t move in with me.

For all that this character supposedly has mental health issues, Alan Bennett portrays somebody with high levels of self-awareness and intelligence

I was expecting him to smother her in her sleep. Bit of an anticlimax really.

Once again Thora goes beyond acting....

Poignant

Brilliant

As a Bradford lad Bennet always makes me think of Mum (Heaton Rd) and my Yorkshire grandparents generation. Classic storytelling.

“ Restored to the perpendicular.......” oh Mr. Bennett🙏🏻

Brilliantly written & acted!!

"I didn't say anything."

Came here to understand what Steve Coogan and Rob Bryson were on about with their impression of Alan Bennett in ‘The Trip.’ Had never heard of him! Thought I’d just listen to a few seconds of it, but sat through the whole thing. This guy is a genius!

I don't think this is meant as comedy but his impressions are hilarious

Life, in all its mundaneness and reality. Beautifully captured by the brilliant Alan Bennett and told so well by Stephanie Cole. Treat.

Love AB! Everything he does is top hole! Ty

reminds me of Catherine Tate's Nan

Her delivery is on par with the best of the best great job

She is marvelous!!

it has been so long since I saw this series, probably about 20 years now. The pure brilliance of writing and performance always blew me away. i forgot how nearly every monologue left me in tears. So beautiful! Thank you for sharing this with us.