The film was directed by Nicholas Hytner, who first staged Alan Bennett's play at London's National Theater.
Dame Thora picked up two of her three Baftas for her Talking Heads monologues, written by Alan Bennett.
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Dame Thora, who died aged 91 in March 2003, played Dolly in a monologue written by Alan Bennett.
On stage, Griffiths' most acclaimed performance was as the charismatic teacher Hector in Alan Bennett's The History Boys.
Further transmissions are planned in the autumn and winter, and they include plays by Shakespeare and Alan Bennett.
Alan Bennett became a university teacher and writer, though he continued to perform.
The 200-seat theatre has hosted figures from Georgian star Edmund Kean to Dame Sybil Thorndike, Joyce Grenfell and Alan Bennett.
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In January it will feature the last radio performance by Dame Thora Hird, in Alan Bennett's The Last of the Sun.
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Meanwhile, Alan Bennett's new play People at the National Theatre sees the playwright take a provocative swipe at the National Trust.
This year's National Theatre highlights include a new, as yet untitled, Alan Bennett play about a fictional meeting between composer Benjamin Britten and poet WH Auden.
The protest against the closures was supported by author Philip Pullman, playwright Alan Bennett, singer Nick Cave and bands Depeche Mode, the Pet Shop Boys and Goldfrapp.
His other production credits include TV film The Wind in the Willows, which was voiced by the likes of Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Gambon, Michael Palin and Alan Bennett.
Also interviewed are Dame Judi Dench, Arthur Miller, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Peter Hall, Sir Tom Stoppard, Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, Stephen Daldry, David Hare, Harold Pinter, and Alan Bennett.
Celebrities such as playwright Alan Bennett, singer Nick Cave and the bands Depeche Mode, the Pet Shop Boys and Goldfrapp had backed the campaign, with many contributing to the costs.
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Nearly all the playwrights who can fill larger theatres, at least in the West End, are either pensioners (Tom Stoppard, Michael Frayn, Alan Bennett and Harold Pinter) or they are dead.
Regarded as one of the nation's most acclaimed and fiercely intelligent directors, Sir Jonathan made his name with Peter Cooke, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett in Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s.
We are in an odd way a very snobbish nation but as Alan Bennett once said, snobbery is an amiable vice when it looks upwards, it's only when it looks downward it's horrible, if you look down on people because, if you admire in some way some style of eccentricity in other people there's nothing that wrong with it.
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