1971: The Most ALAN BENNETT Week IMAGINABLE | One Man’s Week | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive

[@markgatland977]

I need to find more of this. This is complete genius ❤

[@fraserkatie]

It is!

[@hilaryepstein6013]

The wonderful Alan Bennett just before the start of his work at the BBC. One of the best writers they ever had and part of its glory days.

[@depniff]

Alan does a pretty good Alan Bennett impression.

[@craggyisland8770]

“Child slides to his death!” lol

[@george4830]

"The dentist's name is Brian. He's a very smart dentist and is actually far more showbiz than I am. In fact, they ought to be filming him, not me. And I think he feels that. And the director feels it too. I'm a bit of a dead loss really."

[@fraserkatie]

I adore Alan Bennett and his writing and his books. His Talking Heads monologues are brilliant to listen to at night to help you sleep

[@DragonFlagBand]

Peaches En Regalia! Simmons Drums in 1971?

[@andydixon2980]

The middle aged fitness bloke was no slouch.

[@lewis7515]

In his shirt and tie.....

[@noongourfain]

@@lewis7515 What do you wear when using the apparati?

[@Fidel_Villeneuve]

This is fantastic, thanks for the upload! Was this a regular thing on the BBC back then? I remember seeing Vivian Stanshall doing a whole program about his week on the BBC too from around this time. Anyway… Brilliant stuff!

[@pauls8456]

I also wonder where the 72 bus is off to this time…..

[@jmriz]

Don’t forget the small train misled during the great snow of ‘43

[@MichaelBosley]

After just reading that the BBC are cutting down Newsnight and including more (sigh) … debate, it makes you realise how far TV and media as a whole has been sliding intellectually in the past few decades.

[@christianrokicki]

Yay! Keeping fit!

[@littleinkling4604]

Robert Redford. What a dreamboat!

[@lewis7515]

4:40 That one poor little girl let the relentlessly drab, overcast, sheer dampness of it all, get to her - and fell into a nosediving spiral of depression....

[@joncoley8629]

Does anyone know what the wiped programme he was discussing was?

[@noongourfain]

I think it must have had something to do with a slag heap and a car ride.

[@mancroft]

Like something out of Monty Python.

[@ppotter]

"Alan Bennett appears by permission of his Auntie Cissie Turner."

[@mariewalmsley1187]

😂😂❤❤

[@Ruth695]

Unless your teeth are very eccentric... made me laugh 😃

[@NoosaHeads]

3 mins 41 seconds. Gorgeous girl...

[@Tattieboggle]

Aye cracking chassis

[@beritbranch2436]

I donated $5 to your BBC, wildly extravagant I know, but Im hoping for more instructional videos

[@NoosaHeads]

Don't know what it is but I generally didn't like his work. One play - "A day on the sands" was quite good though.

[@OlafProt]

Good grief Beeb (Auntie), don’t post things like this I thought he died.