Events
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23rd May - 2nd June 2013
Profile authors at Hay Festival 2013 -
23nd May - 2nd June 2013
Polly Morland, Renata Salecl at How The Light Gets In philosophy festival -
26th May 2013
Alex Danchev on Cézanne at the Charleston Festival -
26th May 2013
Simon Garfield presents On the Map at Brighton Festival 2013 -
Thursday 20th June
Tony Juniper at Bristol Festival of Ideas -
2nd June 2013
Simon Garfield at London Literature Festival 13 -
Sunday 16th June
Sam Leith at Borders Book Festival -
Thursday 13th June, 2013
Renata Salecl at TEDGlobal 2013 -
Wednesday 12th June
Bernie Krause TEDGlobal talk -
Monday 13th June
Jonathan Dimbleby at the National Army Museum -
Sunday 23 June
Andrew Martin on Travel Around London at Kings Place -
Sunday 23 June
Simon Garfield at Proms at St Jude’s -
Sunday 23rd June
Simon Garfield & Chris Schüler: Mapping the World -
Monday 24 June
Not a Day for Soundbites: The Craft of the Political Speech -
30th June 2013
Polly Morland at Chalke Valley History Festival 2013 -
Tuesday 2nd July
David Hendy at Bristol Festival of Ideas -
Thursday 4th July
Victoria Glendinning at Beaminster Festival
Alan Bennett’s ‘The Shielding Of Mrs Forbes’ – a Book at Bedtime on Radio 4
01 August 2011
‘The Shielding Of Mrs Forbes’ sends up the vanities and hypocrisies of Middle England and its obsession with appearances.
Bennett writes about unconventional sexual arrangements among the apparently conventional. The snobbish and priggish Mrs Forbes is appalled that her son Graham is “chucking himself away” by marrying the unprepossessing Betty. What she, apparently, doesn’t know is that her son is gay. Yet he believes that by marrying, he is not only ensuring his financial future, but also helping himself and his mother keep up appearances.
Reader/Alan Bennett, Producer/Gordon House for the BBC
Watch Alan reading ‘The Shielding of Mrs Forbes’ here, and from his other story ‘The Greening of Mrs Donaldson’ here.
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