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Dec 21, 2022 · Alan Bennett’s 2022 diary, published in the London Review of Books, records the 88-year-old playwright contemplating old age, feeling bored by Covid precautions, chronicling an ever-changing...
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Young actors are being offered the chance to star in a new film by Leeds playwright and author Alan Bennett. The feature film is set in a Yorkshire market town during World War One, a casting...
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Apr 24, 2022 · Alan Bennett’s pandemic diaries: ‘Good Friday, and this year Pontius Pilate is not the only one washing his hands’. Illustration by Barry Falls. Extreme hand-washing, fox siestas and a...
Nov 21, 2016 · Bennett is 82 now and a little deaf and (a joint or two having been replaced) slightly slower. “I can’t be here for much longer!” he announces cheerily during our chat, though the diaries which comprise the lion’s share of Keeping On Keeping On reveal a man whose zest for life and sense of mischief remain undiminished.
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Mar 21, 2024 · Revealed today – with Hytner talking exclusively to The Telegraph – is news of Bennett’s latest opus: The Choral, his first original screenplay for 40 years. It will be filmed this summer,...
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May 2, 2020 · T he decision, announced last week by BBC Drama, to revive and recast Alan Bennett’s landmark Talking Heads series was driven as much by necessity as sentiment. Monologue, delivered to...
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter. Over his entertainment career he has received numerous awards and honours including two BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. He also earned an Academy Award nomination for his film The Madness of King George (1994).
