Untold Stories

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There is much that clearly distresses Bennett about modern Britain, particularly the way that it educates its young, and the encroachment of the market on services such as libraries and galleries. Plans to shut local libraries were "wrong and very short-sighted", Bennett said, adding: "We're impoverishing young people.

Alan Bennett · Untold Stories · LRB 30 September 1999 Alan Bennett · Untold Stories · LRB 30 September 1999

She would perch in the passage dumb with misery and apprehension, motioning me not to go into the empty living-room because there was someone there.I cannot think nowadays it would be so easy – there would be the rigmarole of quotas to be considered and competing budgets, but in those days it just meant a visit to the Mental Health Welfare Officer. His is a generous sadness; he wants what was good about the past to be available still, and fears that it is not. He studied at Exeter College, Oxford, then after a period of National Service, became a lecturer for a short time at Oxford University.

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xv; 658pp including index; illustrated by monochrome photographs, one in colour, with some printed copies of pictures incorporated in the text pages. His 1999 play The Lady in the Van has just been released as a film with Dame Maggie Smith in the lead role. His chances of survival were given as being "much less" than 50% and surgeons had told him they removed a "rock-bun" sized tumour. It could hardly be worse and to leave Mam in such a situation a moment longer than we had to seemed unthinkable.Once I took her by the shoulders and shook her so hard it must have hurt her but she scarcely seemed to mind. Litt by the University of Leeds in 1990 [30] and an honorary doctorate from Kingston University in 1996. I think I knew then that the stair-carpet was only the beginning of it but my brother galvanised a local firm into supplying and fitting the carpet in a couple of days. The senior partner, whom we had first consulted, was a distinguished looking figure, silver-haired, loud-talking, a Rotarian and pillar of the community.

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The History Boys won the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. My father was not a typical butcher – thin, anxious, dogged all his life by stomach ulcers and a temperament ill-suited to the job. Once the move had been accomplished, though, the depression persisted, so now he fell back on the state of the house, blaming its bare unfurnished rooms still with all the decorating to be done.Below the wood the water is deep and dark and sometimes there’s a boy fishing or a couple walking a dog. He co-wrote and starred in Beyond the Fringe (1963), a satirical review, along with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, at the Edinburgh Festival in 1960. It might be months, but one of the books I looked into talked about years, though what all the authorities did seem agreed on was that, treated or not, depression cleared up in time. He got no help at home, where he could only practise in the freezing parlour, the Gimmer too mean even to let him have any light, so that he had to manage with what there was from the gas lamp in the street outside.