Customer Reviews

Wonderful - especially David Benson's readings - By: A. Vincent, 14 Apr 2008
This CD is of Kenneth Williams' diary extracts, read by David Benson, interspersed with extracts of Kenneth Williams' recorded sketches & interviews.
The format works well. For example,in one diary extract Kenneth Williams writes about how he went to see a Frankie Howerd stand-up show, but the show was spoilt by a heckler who made comments which the heckler apparently thought were funny but were not. The CD then switches to a recording of the show itself & we discover that the voice of the heckler was Kenneth Williams himself! Williams had presumably come home &in one of his bouts of self-loathing had written about the terrible heckling, but his vanity did not allow him to write that he had been the one responsible.
What is best about this CD is the voice of David Benson who reads the diary extracts. It would be easy for an actor to simply do an impersonation of Williams' voice, but Benson readsin a way that you really feel captures the heart & personality of Williams - such that it is Williams himself speaking.