Alan Bennett At The BBC

A unique anthology of Alan Bennett's radio and television work featuring extracts from his diaries and readings. This title also features tributes to friends Russell Harty and Peter Cook plus commentary and specially recorded links by Bennett himself. A superb collection of work by one of the country's best-loved and most famous authors.

In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg I 15 years earlierThis fascinating and humorous account tells the story of his travels: from Venice on the back of a rubbish barge to the Pyramids on a camel.

The actor and writer Michael Palm reads the account of his third and most ambitious world adventure: an anticlockwise circumnavigation of the world's largest ocean, the Pacific. With tales of head-hunters in Borneo and eating maggots in Mexico, Palin brilliantly evokes the full colour and richness of the Pacific Rim.