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Alan Bennett

Andrew Marr talks to the writer Alan Bennett.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to the writer Alan Bennett about his life and work. As he publishes his third and, he says, final selection of his diaries, Keeping On Keeping On, Bennett reflects on his reputation for tweeness, his radical politics and sexuality. He writes, "Nothing is ever quite so bad that one can't write it down or so shameful either, though this took me a long time to learn with my earliest diaries reticent and even prudish."
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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43 minutes

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Mon 31 Oct 2016 21:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Fox/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Films - 2006

Stephen Campbell-Moore as Irwin

The Lady in the Van

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Maggie Smith as Miss Shepherd

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2 readings from Keeping On Keeping On:

Diary entry 21 May 2011 (p247)

Sermon before the University, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, 1 June 2014 – Fair Play (p399)

Keeping On Keeping On is published by Faber & Faber and Profile Books.

Credits

Presenter Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest Alan Bennett
Producer Katy Hickman

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  • Mon 31 Oct 2016 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Mon 31 Oct 2016 21:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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