Trinder, Tommy: unfunny comedy of 1, 2
Trinity College, Cambridge 1, 2, 3
Tristram Shandy (Sterne) 1
Tunc, Stephanie 1
Tura, Cosimo: Pièta 1
Turnbull, Sir Andrew 1
Turner, J. M. W. 1
Twickenham, Middlesex 1
Twickenham Film and TV Studios 1
Tynan, Kenneth 1, 2
Tyndale, William 1
Tyson, Alan 1
UEA (University of East Anglia) 1
University of Chicago 1
University College, London 1
University College, Oxford 1
University College Hospital (UCH) 1, 2
University of Hull 1
University of Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Unquiet Grave, The (Connolly) 1
Untold Stories (Bennett) 1
Updike, John 1, 2
Upper Armley National School, Leeds 1, 2, 3
Upper Wortley, Leeds 1
Uses of Literacy, The (Hoggart) 1
UVF (Ulster Volunteer Front) 1
Uxbridge, RAF 1
Vaisey, David 1, 2
Valenciennes, Pierre-Henri de 1
van der Weyden, Roger 1
Van Dyck, Anthony 1, 2
Van Eyck, Jan 1
Van Gogh, Vincent 1, 2
van Leyden, Lucas 1
Vane Tempest, Sir Henry 1
Vasari, Giorgio 1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1
Pilgrim’s Progress 1
Vaughan Williams, Ursula 1
Velázquez, Diego 1, 2
Venice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Venice for Pleasure (Links) 1
Vermeer, Jan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Veronese 1, 2, 3, 4
Vicar Lane, Leeds 1, 2
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London 1, 2, 3
Viridiana (film) 1
‘Vissi d’arte’ (Puccini) 1
Vogue 1, 2
Vorticism 1
Vuillard, Jean Édouard 1, 2, 3
WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wade, Rebekah 1
Waiting for Godot (Beckett) 1
Waiting for the Telegram (Bennett) 1, 2, 3n
Waiting in the Wings (Coward) 1, 2
Walbrook, Anton 1
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1, 2
Wall, Max: AB’s tapered trousers call up resemblance to 1
Wallace Collection, London 1
Wallis, Alfred 1
Walter, Bruno 1
Walton, Sir William 1
Troilus and Cressida 1
Wandsworth Prison, London 1, 2
Wapshot Scandal, The (Cheever) 1
Warlock, Peter 1
Warner, Jack 1, 2
Warwick Arts Centre 1
Watch It Come Down (Osborne) 1
Water Babies, The (Kingsley) 1
Waters, Elsie and Doris 1
Waterstone’s Literary Diary 1
Waterton, Sir Robert 1
Waugh, Evelyn 1, 2, 3
Way to the Stars, The (film) 1
Weil, Simone 1
Weissberger, Arnold 1, 2, 3
Weissmuller, Johnny 1
Welch, Denton 1, 2, 3, 4
Well, Yorkshire 1
Welles, Lord 1
Wellington Road, Leeds 1, 2, 3
Wells Cathedral 1, 2
Wenham, Brian 1
Wensleydale 1
Wesker, Arnold 1, 2, 3, 4
West Malling, Kent 1, 2
West Park, Leeds 1
West Vale, Halifax 1
West Yorkshire Playhouse 1, 2, 3
Western cinema, Leeds 1
Westminster, Dean of 1
Westminster Abbey, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Weston-super-Mare 1, 2
Wharfe River 1, 2, 3
Wharfedale 1, 2
Wharton, Lancashire 1
Wheeler, Charles 1
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer 1
Where Adam Stood (Potter) 1
Whistler, James McNeill 1
Whitby 1, 2
White Bus, The (film) 1
White, Edmund 1
White, Robert 1
Whitemoor High Security Prison, near March, Cambridgeshire 1
White’s Ladies’ Mantles, Briggate, Leeds 1, 2, 3
‘Whitsun Weddings, The’ (Larkin) 1, 2, 3
Widford, Oxfordshire 1
Wiertz, Antoine 1
Wiggin, Lady 1
Wilde, Cornel: as Chopin, keyboard haemorrhage of 1, 2
Wilde, Oscar 1, 2
William of Colchester 1
William of Ockham 1
Williams, Emlyn 1
Williams, John (actor) 1
Williams, Tennessee: inappropriate giggling of 1
Williamson, Nicol 1
Wilmers, Mary-Kay 1, 2
Wilsill, Yorkshire 1
Wilson, A. N. 1
Wilson, Colin 1
Wilson, Harold 1, 2
Wilson, Sam 1
Wilson, Teddy 1
Wilton, Penelope 1
Wilton Diptych 1
Wilton House, Salisbury, Wiltshire 1
Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame) 1
Wind in the Willows, The (Bennett) 1, 2, 3
Windrush River 1
Windsor, Duchess of see Simpson, Wallis
Windsor, Duke of 1
Windsor Castle 1
Winn, David 1
Winn, Godfrey 1
Winner, Michael 1
Winnie the Pooh (Milne) 1
Winstone, Ray 1
Winter Gardens, Morecambe 1
Winters, Shelley 1
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Wittgenstein’s Poker (Edmonds and Eidinow) 1
Wizard 1, 2
Wodehouse, P. G. 1
Woman’s Own 1
Women’s Institute (WI) 1, 2
Wood, Christopher 1
Wood Lane, Leeds: home of Bennett family 1, 2, 3
Woods, Eli 1
Woodhouse, Leeds 1, 2
Woolf, Virginia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wordsworth, William 1
World Within World (Spender) 1, 2
Worthing, Ernest 1
Wortley, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4
Wortley, Richard 1
Wortley Road, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
WOSB (War Office Selection Board), Hampshire 1
Wrens 1
Wright, Clarissa Dickson: as Diana the Huntress, the Casserole Queen; pitiless foe of stags and hares 1
Writing Home (Bennett) 1, 2, 3
Wyman, Jane 1
Wynn, Godfrey 1
Wynyard Park, County Durham 1
Yank at Oxford, A (film) 1
Yarnton Church, Oxford 1
Yeats, W. B. 1
Yes, Minister (television series) 1
Yockenthwaite: (rather dull) stone circle at 1
York and Lancaster Regimental Depot, Pontefract Barracks 1
York Minster 1
Yorkshire College 1
Yorkshire Evening Post 1, 2, 3, 4
Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra 1, 2
Young Mr Pitt, The (film) 1
Ypres, Battle of (1917) 1, 2, 3
Yugoslavia 1
Author biography
Alan Bennett first appeared on the stage in 1960 as one of the authors and performers of the revue Beyond the Fringe. His stage plays include Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus, The Old Country and The Lady in the Van, and he has written many television plays, notably A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Woman of No Importance and the series of monologues Talking Heads. An adaptation of his television play, An Englishman Abroad, was paired with A Question of Attribution in the double-bill Single Spies, first produced at the National Theatre in 1988. This was followed in 1990 by his adaptation of The Wind in the Willows and in 1991 by The Madness of George III.
His most recent play, 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.
by the same author
PLAYS ONE
(Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus, Enjoy)
PLAYS TWO
(Kafka’s Dick, The Insurance Man, The Old Country, An Englishman Abroad, A Question of Attribution)
THE LADY IN THE VAN
OFFICE SUITE
THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
THE HISTORY BOYS
television plays
ME, I’M AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
(A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Visit from Miss Prothero, Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Green Forms, The Old Crowd, Afternoon Off)
ROLLING HOME
(One Fine Day, All Day on the Sands, Our Winnie, Rolling Home, Marks, Say Something Happened, Intensive Care)
TALKING HEADS
screenplays
A PRIVATE FUNCTION
(The Old Crowd, A Private Function, Prick Up Your Ears, 102 Boulevard Haussmann, The Madness of King George)
autobiography
THE LADY IN THE VAN
WRITING HOME
UNTOLD STORIES
fiction
THREE STORIES
(The Laying on of Hands, The Clothes They Stood Up In, Father! Father! Burning Bright)
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