Alan Bennett and Thora Hird equals EXCELLENCE ❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I have been trying to watch this for weeks, but my late mother said, after watching it when it was on television, that she felt exactly the same and I won't be able to watch it without crying my eyes out, I know.

Everything about this is flawless. A true work of art,

Brilliant and tragic... Society's attitude to aging is demonstrated so poignantly....set against a lady of fixed and limiting beliefs and deep, lasting pain.... To a mistress of her craft...thank you Thora ....

Great actress. Thank you Thora Hird - thank you Alan Bennet - thank you Ken Doh. I don't really understand why people would thumb this down....unless they were expecting a David Byrne interview.

Brilliant but so very sad,. I just want to bring Doris home. Thanks for uploading.

A snowy afternoon at home alone, a little sad, and then this wonderful piece of writing and divine acting. This is art!

Decades of experience, all right there. It makes you humble watching such a brilliant actress at work. Watching this should be mandatory in all theatre schools.

What a wonderful acting tour de force.

Wow, wasn't expecting that. Mrs. Hird is at the top of her craft in this performance. I really enjoyed it. Well Done Mrs. Hird. R.I.P.

23 people gave this a thumbs down. 23 people obviously do not appreciate such an amazing actress as Thora Hird.

Wow! What a performance! Timeless..this totally made me cry(esp as an RN who lost her stubborn mom a couple years ago) This perfectly portrays the pride,stubbornness and sometimes very rigid behaviors of “The Best Generation”. Thanks much to whoever posted this!

it has been so long since I saw this series, probably about 20 years now. The pure brilliance of writing and performance always blew me away. i forgot how nearly every monologue left me in tears. So beautiful! Thank you for sharing this with us.

"daughters are best. They don't migrate" heartbreaking

excellent alas all of us will get old may we have the strength of Thora Hird.

heartbreaking , really touched me an im only halfway through

A class act, it's so real

Beautifully done and immensely touching.

She’s one of the generation who cared about what “other people” thought about her ability to keep her house clean. The sad thing was, other people were too busy to even notice or care.

A masterpiece!Total magic!Actresses like Thora Hird are few and far between.

Great acting but so very sad.

A brilliant comment on the human conditions. Well done all around.

Now that's good acting. You don't get that anymore.

I first saw Thora Hird in a televised production of "Memento Mori" and have been a fan ever since. Thank you for posting this.

I binge watched really great acting and well written 👍🇺🇸👍👍👀

I'm glad I'm not one of this generation! I was born 1942. At 81 I still do two or three hours of mowing jobs every day, cook my own meals every day. No junk food, some weights,. I am not getting old! No one is shunting me off to a Home to live with geriatrics like this one.

It is amazing the acting - but also in the days this was made 75 was much older than it is today... varies of course from person to person but then 75 was considered very old

Still brilliant after all these years

"I don't think they're married, 'alf of them" - makes one laff out loud. Bless Thora Hird RIP

Thank you, Ken, for making all of these available. I often describe them to people, and my enthusiasm for them.

I watched it several times and still find brilliant each time, the writing is phenomenal her acting it extraordinary

Brilliant performance 👏👏👍💐🌹 Sad, funny beautiful x thank you so much. Xxx

This is one of my favorites. I recite this to friends, word for word, (in my mind) exactly the same... I love it. It reminds me of my grandmother. Perfect Bennett.

Classic writing and acting . Beautiful .

thora always seemed to be on TV when I was growing up. Loved her in the series in loving memory, and she was wonderful in the Moods episode of Dinnerladies!

Quite interesting how times have changed - a 75 year old woman would not be presented like this any more - Thora's clothes and hair are more akin to a 90 year old now! :)

Spellbinding: writing and acting.

omg here it is!!! astonishing... o thank you for this

Once again Thora goes beyond acting....

Flawless Thora Hird!❤️

Everything about this is great

Wonderful acting! Thanks for sharing.

'Do not go gentle into that good night.' Why ever not?

Pure joy....Thora Hird & Allan Bennett. = SUBLIME ❤❤❤

This Talking Heads must be the saddest one of all 😢😢😢😢😢

A brilliant performance but I must say, it did make me sad, though.

Excellent actress. Poignant, sad, but it happens!

ken doh i love you very much....xxx blessings

It's sadly ironic that Thora herself died in a nursing home

I always liked this one

Fantastic.

Just perfect in its sadness..!

She turned down the help when it came. I guess she felt she rather die than end up in Stafford House.

Brilliant!

I see why she beat them all for the bafta.

The reality of old age

'Alan Bennett - Names' - well worth five minutes of your time.

I can no longer watch this story whole after the passing of my dear old grandfather, it's just too similar to situations he went through quite a few times in old age because of his insistence in living alone. Painful but necessary message.

Reminds me of my mum. I have a 78 year old mum and we have just lost my father/her husband (hit by a car) and while she is still very able she is getting slow and frail and stubborn . I’ve said she should sell the house, buy a small villa unit in a retirement community to keep her independence but it also provides a place where people will look out for her…..but no. Despite her not being able to look after the home as well and me being too far. She won’t consider it. Give up her ‘home’. And she certainly won’t move in with me.

Epic acting

amazing.

Michael Caine in a wig!

Alan Benett performed by Dame Thora Hird.....does it get any better?

Love God and close all gates.

Produced 1 year before I moved to the UK... god I had so much catching up to do and I never even knew ...

Can't help but wonder when she used the bathroom. This is sad and scary. Yoga. For strength AND balance. So you don't end up in this situation.

The Talking Heads that Dame Thora did have not been revisited in the latest series (remade as others have). I wonder if they couldn’t think who to cast. After all, Thora was indeed amazing. I’d like to see Anne Reid do them.

OMG I was born the day she died

Is it to be assumed that she died at the end?

Not nice to grow old!

😭

reminds me of Catherine Tate's Nan

alan bennett on dementia

Sure ... yes ... "we have made our bed and we must lie in it." But ... sometimes ... God/Fate/the Universe makes our bed for us. And let me tell you it/they are terrible bed-makers and couldn't even get jobs as maids in a cheap, two-bit flophouse.