I've watched the first 7 of these programmes. The acting has been uniformly excellent.
These all are basically a master class in acting. All done with such an intimate and revealing insight.
Stunning!Martin Freeman is awesome in "A chip in the sugar" but Imelda Staunton is sublime in "A lady of letters".
Haven't watched them all yet, but happy to recommend already. Just watched Harriet Walter and cannot fault a moment of her performance.
Not having seen the original Talking Heads that debuted over 30 years ago, I was keen to watch this special pandemic rendition of Talking Heads which revived 10 of the episodes from series 1 and 2. Alan Bennett wrote 2 new ones pre-pandemic.
It takes a great degree of acting skill to carry off these monologues. Some of the performances are captivating.
A series of no-brainers led to the belated rebirth of Alan Bennett's seminal TV monologues series "Talking Heads" in the era of the pandemic. After a quick whip-round and you get some of the finest British actors of the modern era and reduced production crews almost doing a "greatest hits" run through on the hauntingly empty sets of Eastenders.
Go for it. You'll feel absolutely awfull but very, very spoiled at the same time.
Lovely to see the 'Talking Heads' format being revived, with new people reading some of the classics from 32 years ago, with Bennett also penning some new ones.Nice to have something a bit different on the BBC.