About Alan Bennett
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.
Collections
Office Suite: Two One-act Plays (1981)
Objects of Affection: And Other Plays for Television (1982)
Two Kafka Plays: Kafka's Dick / The Insurance Man (1987)
Alan Bennett Double Bill: Forty Years On / A Woman of No Importance: Starring Sir John Gielgud And Patricia Routledge (bbc Radio Collection) (1988)
Intensive Care and Other T.V.Plays (1989)
Single Spies and Talking Heads: Two Plays About Guy Burgess And Anthony Blunt (1990)
The Complete Beyond the Fringe (1993)
Writing Home (1994)
The Lady in the Van / My Uncle Clarence (1994)
The Complete Talking Heads (1998)
Alan Bennett at the BBC (1998)
A Box of Bennetts (2000)
The Laying On of Hands: Stories (2001)
The Clothes They Stood Up In / The Lady in the Van (2002)
Hymn (2002)
Three Stories: Father! Father! Burning Bright, The Clothes They Stood Up In, The Laying on of Hands (2003)
Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2003)
Rolling Home (2003)
Forty Years on / A Woman of No Importance (2003)
Alan Bennett: A Private Function (2004)
Alan and Thora (2004)
Untold Stories (2005)
Four Stories (2006)
Alan Bennett's 'On the Margin' (2009)
Triple Bill: Three Classic BBC Radio Dramas (2010)
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories (2011)
Objects of Affection: And Other Plays for Television (1982)
Two Kafka Plays: Kafka's Dick / The Insurance Man (1987)
Alan Bennett Double Bill: Forty Years On / A Woman of No Importance: Starring Sir John Gielgud And Patricia Routledge (bbc Radio Collection) (1988)
Intensive Care and Other T.V.Plays (1989)
Single Spies and Talking Heads: Two Plays About Guy Burgess And Anthony Blunt (1990)
The Complete Beyond the Fringe (1993)
Writing Home (1994)
The Lady in the Van / My Uncle Clarence (1994)
The Complete Talking Heads (1998)
Alan Bennett at the BBC (1998)
A Box of Bennetts (2000)
The Laying On of Hands: Stories (2001)
The Clothes They Stood Up In / The Lady in the Van (2002)
Hymn (2002)
Three Stories: Father! Father! Burning Bright, The Clothes They Stood Up In, The Laying on of Hands (2003)
Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2003)
Rolling Home (2003)
Forty Years on / A Woman of No Importance (2003)
Alan Bennett: A Private Function (2004)
Alan and Thora (2004)
Untold Stories (2005)
Four Stories (2006)
Alan Bennett's 'On the Margin' (2009)
Triple Bill: Three Classic BBC Radio Dramas (2010)
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories (2011)
Chapbooks
Plays
Beyond the Fringe (1963) (with Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller)
Forty Years on (1969)
Getting on (1972)
Habeas Corpus (1973)
The Old Country (1978)
Enjoy (1980)
A Private Function (1984)
The Writer in Disguise (1985)
Kafka's Dick (1987)
Prick Up Your Ears: The Screenplay (1987)
Green Forms (1988)
Talking Heads (1988)
Visit from Miss Prothero (1988)
The Lady in the Van (1990)
The Wind in the Willows: Play (1991) (with Kenneth Grahame)
Single Spies (1991)
The Madness of King George (1992)
aka The Madness of George III
A Chip in the Sugar (1994)
A Lady of Letters (1994)
A Woman of No Importance (1994)
Soldiering On (1995)
Say Something Happened (1996)
Power Pyramid of Abramelin (1997)
Power Windows (1997)
The Clothes They Stood Up In (1997)
Bed Among the Lentils (1998)
A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (1998)
Her Big Chance (1998)
Talking Heads 2 (1998)
Telling Tales (2000)
An Englishman Abroad (2001)
The History Boys (2004)
The Habit of Art (2009)
Forty Years on (1969)
Getting on (1972)
Habeas Corpus (1973)
The Old Country (1978)
Enjoy (1980)
A Private Function (1984)
The Writer in Disguise (1985)
Kafka's Dick (1987)
Prick Up Your Ears: The Screenplay (1987)
Green Forms (1988)
Talking Heads (1988)
Visit from Miss Prothero (1988)
The Lady in the Van (1990)
The Wind in the Willows: Play (1991) (with Kenneth Grahame)
Single Spies (1991)
The Madness of King George (1992)
aka The Madness of George III
A Chip in the Sugar (1994)
A Lady of Letters (1994)
A Woman of No Importance (1994)
Soldiering On (1995)
Say Something Happened (1996)
Power Pyramid of Abramelin (1997)
Power Windows (1997)
The Clothes They Stood Up In (1997)
Bed Among the Lentils (1998)
A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (1998)
Her Big Chance (1998)
Talking Heads 2 (1998)
Telling Tales (2000)
An Englishman Abroad (2001)
The History Boys (2004)
The Habit of Art (2009)
Novellas
Non fiction
A Working Life: Child Labour Through the Nineteenth Century (1990)
Alan Bennett : Diaries 1980 - 1990 (1994)
The Red Baron's Last Flight: A Mystery Investigated (1997) (with Norman Franks)
Loose Canon: A Portrait of Brian Brindley (2004) (with Ned Sherrin and Damian Thompson)
A Life Like Other People's (2010)
Alan Bennett : Diaries 1980 - 1990 (1994)
The Red Baron's Last Flight: A Mystery Investigated (1997) (with Norman Franks)
Loose Canon: A Portrait of Brian Brindley (2004) (with Ned Sherrin and Damian Thompson)
A Life Like Other People's (2010)
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