Talking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television

BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television...

 by British playwright Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research mediaeval history at the university for several years...

. The two series were first broadcast in 1988 and 1998, and have since been broadcast on BBC Radio

BBC Radio

BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. For a history of BBC radio prior to 1927 see British Broadcasting Company...

 and included on the A-level and GCSE English Literature syllabus.

A West End theatre production opened at the Comedy Theatre in January 1992 for a 10 week season, starring Patricia Routledge

Patricia Routledge

Katherine Patricia Routledge, CBE is an English character comedy actress and singer. She is best known for her role as character Hyacinth Bucket in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp in the British television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates...

 and Alan Bennett, who also directed, plus piano interludes by Jeremy Sams

Jeremy Sams

Jeremy Sams is a British film director, writer, translator, orchestrator, musical director, film composer, and lyricist....

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