ALAN BENNETT
July/August 2014
We have a long way to go before our children get the kind of education they deserve
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July/August 2014
As he turns 80 this summer, this remarkable polymath deserves to be fêted as a populariser of science and pioneer in the arts
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May 2013
A double bill of Alan Bennett plays expertly transports us to a world of childhood hopes and grief
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May 2013
Over at his blog Entartete Musik, my pal Gavin Plumley links to Alan Bennett's piece in the London Review of Books in which our playwright muses that it's much
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