Return to the Hundred Acre Wood - David Benedictus - Audio Book CD
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About Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
It was eighty years ago, on the publication of The House at Pooh Corner, when Christopher Robin said good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Now they are all back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties. This is a companion volume that truly captures the style of A. A. Milne-a worthy sequel to The House at Pooh Corner and Winnie-the-Pooh.
About David Benedictus
David Benedictus has been almost everywhere and done almost everything. In this irreverent memoir we get his tumultuous life at Eton, his weird job as a tutor to the Rothschilds, the world of BBC drama inthe great days of the Wednesday Play, filming in New York with Coppola, working in the explosion of fringe theatre in the sixties, assistant to Trevor Nunn at the RSC, commissioning editor making movies at Channel 4, and running the Book At Bedtime for BBC Radio. He interviewed Judy Garland, and attended an academic orgy in San Francisco. He chatted up the Rolling Stones, whom he had failed to recognise, and gave a party for Tom Jones's first golden disc. Paul McCartney came to his party and chatted up his auntie. He was a tour-guide in London, and the director of the first Amnesty Celebrity concerts.
He directed almost every actor of note, from Gielgud to the prickly Berkoff, from O'Toole to Ralph Fiennes, and his dog was responsible for Judi Dench getting married. He had his portrait painted by John Bratby, who mistakenly thought him 'one of the great thinkers of the 20th Century' and sat between Susan George and Olivia Newton-John at the cinema. This is a book with something to entertain and enrage just about everybody. Its final controversial chapter deals with the last two years during which he has been teaching drama to the posh girls at Putney High School. |
