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Alan Bennett

UK  (1934 - )
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Alan Bennett is an English author and actor noted for his work, his boyish appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent. He was born in Armley in Leeds, Yorkshire. The son of a Co-op butcher, Bennett attended Leeds Modern School (a former state grammar school), learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, and gained a place at Cambridge University. However, having spent time in Cambridge during national service, and partly wishing to follow the object of his unrequited love, he decided to apply for a scholarship at Oxford University. He was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford University and went on to receive a first-class degree in history. While at Oxford he performed comedy with a number of future successful actors in the Oxford Revue. He was to remain at Oxford for several years researching and teaching Medieval History before deciding he was not cut out to be an academic.
 
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Two Kafka Plays: Kafka's Dick / The Insurance ManAlan Bennett Double Bill: Forty Years On / A Woman of No Importance: Starring Sir John Gielgud And Patricia Routledge (bbc Radio Collection)The Complete Beyond the FringeWriting Home
The Complete Talking HeadsAlan Bennett at the BBCA Box of BennettsThe Laying On of Hands: Stories
The Clothes They Stood Up In / The Lady in the VanHymnThree Stories: Father! Father! Burning Bright, The Clothes They Stood Up In, The Laying on of HandsMe, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Rolling HomeForty Years on / A Woman of No ImportanceAlan Bennett: A Private FunctionAlan and Thora
Untold StoriesFour Stories
 
Chapbooks
Father! Father! Burning Bright
 
Plays
Beyond the FringeForty Years onHabeas CorpusThe Old Country
A Private FunctionKafka's DickPrick Up Your Ears: The ScreenplayGreen Forms
Talking HeadsThe Lady in the VanThe Wind in the Willows: PlaySingle Spies
The Madness of King GeorgeA Chip in the SugarA Woman of No ImportanceThe Clothes They Stood Up In
A Cream Cracker Under the SetteeTalking Heads 2Telling TalesAn Englishman Abroad
The History Boys
 
Novellas
The Uncommon Reader
 

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