Telling Tales
(2000)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 1
No Mean City
Episode 10 - 12-06-2000
In this final monologue, Alan Bennett reflects on his upbringing in Leeds.
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Unsaid Prayers
Episode 9 - 12-02-2000
Continuing his series of monologues about growing up in Leeds, Alan Bennett recalls boyhood piety, the miseries of fundamentalist religion, and his quarrel with God.
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Aunt Eveline
Episode 8 - 11-29-2000
In tonight's monologue, Alan Bennett remembers a cinema pianist with a confusing anatomy.
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Eating Out
Episode 7 - 11-25-2000
Continuing his series of monologues about growing up in Yorkshire, Alan Bennett recalls the perils of department-store cafes in Leeds.
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Proper Names
Episode 6 - 11-22-2000
In tonight's monologue, Alan Bennett reflects on what couples call one another. And what they don't.
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Days Out
Episode 5 - 11-18-2000
Alan Bennett continues his monologues about growing up in Leeds with recollections of the craze for hiking.
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A Shy Butcher
Episode 4 - 11-15-2000
Alan Bennett continues his monologues about growing up in Leeds by recalling his father.
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An Ideal Home
Episode 3 - 11-12-2000
Alan Bennett explains how living over a butcher's shop has its drawbacks, not least the carcasses hanging in the cellar.
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Our War
Episode 2 - 11-04-2000
In this monologue, the writer reflects on how the Second World War seemed to pass his family by.
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A Strip of Blue
Episode 1 - 11-04-2000
The first of ten new monologues, written and delivered by Alan Bennett, that tell of his boyhood and youth in Leeds during the Second World War. Here, a patch of upholstery triggers memories of childhood.
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