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Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English author, actor, humorist and playwright. Early years Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The son of a co-op butcher, Bennett attended Leeds Modern School (now Lawnswood School), learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, and gained a place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.However, having ...read more

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Once Upone A Time, A Very Long Time Ago Now

Both Of Them Went Out With The Blue Balloon

A Few Days Later Pooh Was Walking Through The Forest

The Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, Stood By Himself In...

One Fine Winter's Day When Piglet Was...

Owl Lived At The Chestnuts

One Day, When Christopher Robin And...

Some Hours Later, Just As The Night Was Beginning To...

Eeyore, The Old Grey Donkey...

He Got Up Slowly

So He Trotted On, Rather Sadly Now

One Fine Day Pooh Had Stumped Up To The Top Of The Forest

The Great Train Robbery

As Soon As Christopher Robin Had Finished His Lunch...

So Off They All Went To Discover The Pole

The Sadder And Wiser Beaver

"This Is The Tricky One"

Words...And Things

"Now Fades The Thunder..."

"So Much For Our Glorious Dead"

Playground Duty

"Have The Boys Given You A Nickname?"

"The First World War Gets The Thumbs Down"

"And Now For Some Poetry..."

"Where Do You Live, Sir?"

"The New Man Seems Clever"

The History Boys

"The Boys Seems To Know More Than They're Telling"

"All This Religion..."

"How Are Our Young Men Doing?"

Half Way Through Term

Boys At The Colleges

How Dad Put Up With It All

Across 70 Years, I'd Like To Shake Your Hand

Mock Oxbridge Interviews

Excursions Into Unreality

All the Spoils of the East

The English Way Of Death

School Photograph

Common, Like Camp

This Terrible Tale

Any Other Mental Illness?

Irwin/Hector Class

'Splendid News!'

An Unflinching Eye

Cocktail Parties

'i Just Wanted To Say Thank You'

Headmaster/Mrs Lintott

'Sing As We Go'

The History Boys (Dramatized)

Demented but very nicely spoken

Twilight of Empire

Christmas High Tea

Let's Face It (1996 Digital Remaster)

Taking Me For Him

A lot of splother

Letter From Posner Parents

The Mental Health Welfare Officer

'There Are Various Theories..'

The edge of the moor

Stricken And Bewildered

Fat Pig One And Fat Pig Two

Involuntary Prediction

Soon She Was Her Old Self

Born With Perfect Pitch?

A life varies in social value

The sister who stayed at home

Mam's Precocious Interest In Antiques

This Flaming Carry On

As we get older

Talking Heads Part 1 of 2

In The Front Rank

The Ranks Of The Demented

Ch1- A Chip In The Sugar

A home in Weston

Give us a kiss love

Blundering about the undergrowth

Father Wore A Suit Every Day Of His Life

Staff Interviews

The water creeps over the sands

Promiscuous magnanimity

Keeping herself to herself

He Was A Lovely Fella

Very good, very good

Alice Was Beginning To Get Very Tired Of...

Reminders of mortality

Boring Christmas presents

A Strip Of Blue

Isn't she a love?

The descent into delusion

'Pass The Parcel..'

They Were Indeed A Queer-Looking Party

'What A Curious Feeling,' Said Alice

Staring Out of the Window (Short Story)

There Must Be A Famine Somewhere

Once Upon A Time I Had My Life Planned Out

I've Got Two Social Workers

After A Minute Of Two, They Began Moving About Again

Talking Heads Part 2 of 2

This Morning I Went To Community Caring

The Clothes They Stood Up In

As She Said This, She Came Upon A Neat Little House

Steppes In The Right Direction (Live At The Cambridge Arts Theatre)

The Uncommon Reader

As She Said These Words, Her Foot Slipped

For A Minute Or Two Alice Stood Looking At The House

Prison - They Have It Easy

Ch 1- Bed Among The Lentils

It Was A Queer-Shaped Little Creature

On The Many Occasions Midgley Had Killed...

At Home With the Atom

Ch2- A Lady Of Letters

Take A PewAlan Bennett

Take A Pew (1996 Digital Remaster)

And It Was In The Middle Of This Silence...

Man Bites God (Live At The Cambridge Arts Theatre)

Alice Had Not Gone Much Farther Before She Came In Sight Of...

Modest Though Miss Shepherd's Estate Was

Just At This Moment, Alice Felt A Very Curious Sensation

I Ran Into A Snake This Afternoon.....

For Some Days After Miss Shepherd's Death

Ch 2- Soldiering On

The Timing Was Good

11th August Alec Guinness Funeral

4th September Blonde Angel

3rd September Order Of Service

They Very Soon Came Upon A Gryphon, Lying Fast Asleep...

A Large Rose Tree Stood Near The Entrance Of The Garden

Fifth Of May 1989. 'Mr Bennett?'

The King And Queen Of Hearts Were Sitting On Their Throne

Over A Year Later. Finding Myself Near The Village.

Postscript: This Account Of Miss Shepherd

February 1981: Miss Shepherd Has Flu....

April 1970: Today We Move Miss Shepherd's Van....

It Must Have Been A Year Or So After This....

The Woman Behind The Curtain....

Then He Called Out, 'silence!'

June 1977: On This Day Of The Jubilee....

May 1976: I've Had Some Manure Delivered....

Mr Horsfall Did Not Dye His Hair

"They're Ringing The Ward"

14th May Ted Hughes Memorial

24th July Soldiers Shot For Cowardice

6th March Sir Denis Mahon

17th November Oxford Degree

10th Jan 1998 Listen To Tape

15th January Yorkshire

Miss Fozzard finds her feet

I Vote The Young Lady Tell Us A Story!

Easter Monday Noel Coward

Sometime In 1980 Miss Shepherd Acquired A Car....

A Chip in the Sugar

I Stand Up And Say 'My Name Is Susan'

13th May New York

In The Interval Between....

No Political Party Quite Catered....

Miss Shepherd's Daily Emergence From The Van....

"It's Probably Best", Said Courcher.

30th September Read Shylock

They'd Almost Completed A Circuit

Mrs. Ransome Too Could See The Cheerful Side.

"Don't Get Used To It Too Soon"

The Ransomes Lived In An Edwardian Block Of Flats.

Ten Minutes Later...

Miss Tunstall Had Finished The Notice

"What Worries Me"

Royal Box (Live At The Cambridge Arts Theatre)

22nd March Yorkshire Independence

15th March Beggars

26th August Elgar's 1st Symphony

26th August France

24th December Carols From Kings

15th September Larkin's Poems

2nd January 1997

8th July Classic FM

Alan Bennett: Talking Heads 2 Part 1 of 2

18th November Lady In The Van

19th July Henry Moore

Let's Face It - 1996 Remastered Version

25th March The Comet

13th January 1999 Humphrey Carpenter

7th November Isiah Berlin Dies

9th February Iris Murdoch Dies

December 1974: Miss Shepherd Has Been Explaining....

Alice Thought She Had Never Seen Such A Curious Croquet Ground

9th July Yorkshire No Visitors

Alan Bennett: Talking Heads 2 Part 2 of 2

March 1987: The Nuns Up The Road....

25th October Guinness' Wife Dies

25th July The Characters I Write

In The First Year Of The War

21st May Gielgud Dies

"You Mustn't Get Too Excited"

January 1974: Charity In The Crescent

14th June Yorkshire Sheep

Aftermyth Of War

Mr. Ransome Having Told Her...

Mr. Ransome Had Been Told That

2nd September Death Of Diana

Let's Face It - 1996 Digital Remaster

Mrs. Ransome Was Sitting Contentedly

When Dusty Had Started Out Counselling

When Mrs. Ransome Said To Dusty That She...

Coming Off The Leeds And Bradford Ring Road...

A Couple Of Weeks After The Burglary

The Laying On Of Hands

Seconds, Probably, Said Mr. Ransome Later.

Do You Think You'll Catch Them?

He Wandered On Through Deserted Streets.

"Records Are On The Warpath Again"

Fire, Police Or Ambulance?

That Night, Mr. Ransome Took Out A Dictionary.

At The Hospital The First Person They Saw...

"Tomato Or My Jam?"

It Was On The Third Of These Increasingly Flustered Trips...

Midgley's Father Lay Propped Up...

"Of Course You Can Go"

17th Jan 2000 Prince & Mrs Parker Bowles

Take A Pew - 1996 Remastered Version

22nd January Richard Buckles Autobiography

17th August Bearded Man In Frock

8th Jan 2001 Material World

2nd May Chicago

28th February Spike Milligan Dies

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