Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett’s People is currently in repertory at the National Theatre along with two short plays, Hymn, which has music by George Fenton, and Cocktail Sticks. They are all published by Faber.

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary: 2012 · 3 January 2013

• It starts with an itch: ‘People’ · 8 November 2012

• Diary · 5 January 2012

• Baffled at a Bookcase: My Libraries · 28 July 2011

• Primrose Hill Lectures 2011: libraries · 15 June 2011

• Diary · 16 December 2010

• The Greening of Mrs Donaldson: A Story · 9 September 2010

• Diary · 7 January 2010

• Alan Bennett writes about his new play: ‘The Habit of Art’ · 5 November 2009

• Bennett’s Dissection: 2008 Diary · 1 January 2009

• What I Didn’t Do in 2007 · 3 January 2008

• The Uncommon Reader: A Story · 8 March 2007

• My 2006: 2006 Diary · 4 January 2007

• Diary: What I did in 2005 · 5 January 2006

• What I Did in 2004 · 6 January 2005

• A Common Assault: in Italy · 4 November 2004

• The History Boy: exam-taking · 3 June 2004

• Postscript: The tap-dancing Lord Hutton · 19 February 2004

• A Shameful Year · 8 January 2004

• ‘Two in Torquay’: a short play · 10 July 2003

• Secrets are best kept by those who have no sense of humour: Why I turned down ‘Big Brother’ · 2 January 2003

• Seeing Stars: film actors · 3 January 2002

• The Laying on of Hands · 7 June 2001

• Alan Bennett’s 2000 Diary · 25 January 2001

• A Cure for Arthritis and Other Tales · 2 November 2000

• Memories of Lindsay Anderson: Lindsay Anderson · 20 July 2000

• What I did in 1999 · 20 January 2000

• Father! Father! Burning Bright · 9 December 1999

• Untold Stories · 30 September 1999

• What I did in 1998 · 21 January 1999

• Nights in the Gardens of Spain · 1 October 1998

• Alan Bennett chooses four paintings for schools: Studying the Form · 2 April 1998

• Notes on 1997: Me Looking like a Flustered Turkey · 1 January 1998

• K.B. McFarlane is remembered by Alan Bennett, his former student, and the life of a Forties Oxford don is evoked in two of his letters · 4 September 1997

• What I did in 1996 · 2 January 1997

• The Clothes They Stood Up In · 28 November 1996

• Diary · 4 January 1996

• Alan Bennett remembers Peter Cook · 25 May 1995

• Madness: The Movie · 9 February 1995

• Diary · 20 October 1994

• ‘The Stringalongs’ · 24 February 1994

• Where I was in 1993 · 16 December 1993

• Alas! Deceived: Philip Larkin · 25 March 1993

  • Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion

• The King and I · 30 January 1992

• Diary · 24 January 1991

• Diary · 11 January 1990

• The Lady in the Van · 26 October 1989

• Ten Days that Shook Me · 15 September 1988

• Where was I in 1987? · 10 December 1987

• Kafka at Las Vegas · 23 July 1987

• Diary · 18 December 1986

• Uncle Clarence · 5 June 1986

• Diary · 5 December 1985

• The Wrong Blond · 23 May 1985

  • Auden in Love by Dorothy Farnan

• Diary · 20 December 1984

• Lost Jokes · 2 August 1984

• Diary · 16 February 1984

• Instead of a Present · 15 April 1982

• Bad John: John Osborne · 3 December 1981

  • A Better Class of Person by John Osborne

• Men’s Talk · 3 December 1981

• Cold Sweat · 15 October 1981

  • Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman

• Gielgud’s Achievements · 20 December 1979

  • An Actor and his Time by John Gielgud

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