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Talking Heads

1988-04-19 · 30 min / episode · ★ 6.7

Drama · Comedy

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

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Alan Bennett
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BBC
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United Kingdom
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Ended

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