It is over ten years since the first series of Talking Heads delighted viewers, listeners, readers and theatre-goers. The collection of six monologues, perfomed by Stephanie Cole, Thora Hird, Patricia Routledge, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Alan Bennett himself, was written specifically for BBC television and won the prestigious 1989 Hawthornden Prize.The second series contains six equally memorable monologues, performed by Eileen Aitkins, David Haig, Thora Hird, Patricia Routledge, Julie Walters and Penelope Wilton. Here, as ever, Alan Bennett's characters display wisdom, folly, boredom, pain and joy, and his observations go to the heart of Englishness.All twelve Talking Heads are collected together in this edition, as well as Alan Bennett's early monologue A Woman of No Importance, which was performed by Patricia Routledge and first published in Objects of Affection in 1982. Read Less