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| The Private World of Kenneth Williams: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)
Audio CD
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Release Date: April 2004
ISBN-10: 0563529369
ISBN-13: 9780563529361
List Price: £7.00
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Wonderful - especially David Benson's readings
| Customer Rating: | This CD is of Kenneth Williams' diary extracts, read by David Benson, interspersed with extracts of Kenneth Williams' recorded sketches and interviews.
The format works well. For example, in one diary extract Kenneth Williams writes about how he went to see a Frankie Howerd stand-up show, but the show was spoilt by a heckler who made comments which the heckler apparently thought were funny but were not. The CD then switches to a recording of the show itself and we discover that the voice of the heckler was Kenneth Williams himself! Williams had presumably come home and in one of his bouts of self-loathing had written about the terrible heckling, but his vanity did not allow him to write that he had been the one responsible.
What is best about this CD is the voice of David Benson who reads the diary extracts. It would be easy for an actor to simply do an impersonation of Williams' voice, but Benson reads in a way that you really feel captures the heart and personality of Williams - such that it is Williams himself speaking. |
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