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The Private World of Kenneth Williams: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) | 
 enlarge | Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 62639
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0563529369
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9780563529361
ASIN: 0563529369
Publication Date: April 5, 2004
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Wonderful - especially David Benson's readings April 14, 2008
A. Vincent (England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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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