
Alan Bennett - The History Boys
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Story of Nicholas Posner
When I was a boy I was very late developing and my voice didn't break till I was nearly 17. Nick said that you don't find boys with unbroken voices now seventeen but I didn't entirely buy that because I know boy I think it's a genetic thing. A friend of mine his voice broke really late and his son his voice broke exactly the same way so I rewrote the part to see who could sing but his voice had broke. The final line of the play at that time was a person saying but it's not all bad news my voice is breaking. She says she doesn't know about women in that sense as "you have to tell your own story"
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