Telling tales!

Sarah Lancashire joins a starry line-up to bring Alan Bennett’s acclaimed monologues back to TV

- HANNAH DAVIES, IAN MACEWAN, STEVEN PERKINS

TALKING HEADS

Tuesday, 9pm & 9.30pm; Thu, 7.30pm (Wales, 7.25pm, BBC2) BBC1 Drama

All 12 episodes will be on BBC iPlayer after the first two episodes have aired

The BAFTA-winning Talking Heads, a series of poignant and comic monologues written by Alan Bennett, was first brought to TV in 1988 by a distinguished cast including Dame Julie Walters, Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Thora Hird.