by Alan Bennett
Thompson, Mark 1, 2, 3
Thomson, A. R. 1
Thorndike, Dame Sybil 1
Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead: lewd ingenuity of schoolboys at 1
Three Sisters, The (Chekhov) 1
Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron 1, 2
Thwaite, Anthony 1n, 2
Times, The 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Timpson, Miss (teacher) 1
Tinker, Jack 1
Tit-Bits 1
Toad of Toad Hall (Grahame, adapted by Milne) 1, 2
Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolaievich 1, 2
Tomalin, Nick 1, 2
Torrigiano, Pietro 1
Totterdill, John 1
Townsend, Lady 1
Townsend, Sue 1, 2, 3, 4
Toynbee, Arnold 1
Trackers (Harrison) 1
Travers, Ben 1
Trefusis, Violet 1
Trench, Charles Chenevix 1
Trial, The (Kafka) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Trial, The (film, 1962) 1
Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn: Dr Goebbels reads at 1
Trinity Church, Leeds 1
Trinity College, Cambridge 1
Trinity College, Oxford 1
Trodd, Kenith 1
Trollope, Anthony 1
Truffaut, Francois 1
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeievich 1, 2
Tynan, Kenneth 1, 2, 3
Tynan, Kathleen 1, 2, 3
Tyson, Alan 1, 2
University College Hospital, London (UCH) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
University Museum, Oxford 1
University of Hull 1
University of Liverpool 1
Unquiet Grave, The (Connolly) 1
Updike, John 1
Utley, T. E. 1
Uzés 1
Vaisey, David [Ned] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Vaisey, Libby 1
Vaisey, Maureen 1
Van Dyke, Sir Anthony 1
Variety 1
Varsity 1
Vaughan, Anne 1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Pilgrim’s Progress 1
Veterans (Wood) 1
Vidal, Gore 1, 2
View from Goffman, A (ed. Ditton) 1n
Vinogradoff, Mrs (daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell) 1
Vinteuil 1
Virginia Woolf’s restaurant and bar, Russell Hotel, London 1
Vogue 1
Vully de Candole, H. H., Bishop of Knaresborough see de Candole, H. H. Vully
W. see Brookes, Warwick
Wadham, Julian 1
Wagenknecht, Lynn 1, 2
Wain, John 1
Walesa, Lech: plucky little wife of 1
Walker, Stuart 1
Wall, Mickey 1
Waller, David 1
Walters, Julie 1
Walton, Lady 1
Walton, Mrs (of Giggleswick): strange conduct of reporters observed by 1
Walton, Sir William 1, 2, 3;
Belshazzar’s Feast 1;
The Bear 1;
Troilus and Cressida 1
War Graves Commission 1, 2
Wardle, Irving 1, 2, 3, 4
Warrington, Don 1
Washbourne, Mona 1, 2
Waste Land, The (Eliot) 1
Watch it Come Down (Osborne) 1
Waterhouse, Keith 1
Waterloo Bridge, London 1, 2
Waugh, Evelyn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wedding Preparations in the Country (Kafka) 1
‘Wednesday Play, The’ (television programme) 1
Weil, Simone 1, 2, 3
Welch, Denton 1, 2
Weldon, Fay 1
‘Well of Narcissus, The’ (Auden) 1
Welles, Orson 1
Wellington, Northamptonhire 1, 2
Wells, H. G. 1, 2
Werther (Massenet) 1
West Park, Leeds 1
Westland affair 1
Westminster Abbey 1, 2, 3, 4n
Weston-super-Mare 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Wharton, Michael 1
Wheldon, Huw 1, 2
Whig Interpretation of History, The (Butterfield) 1
White, Michael 1
Whitman, Walt 1
Whitrow, Ben 1
Whitsun Weddings, The (Larkin) 1, 2
‘Whitsun Weddings, The’ (Larkin) 1
‘Why are the Clergy …?’ (Smith) 1
Wilde, Oscar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wilkes, John 1
Williams, Canon 1
Williams, Harcourt 1
Williams. Kenneth 1, 2
Williams, Michael 1
Williams, Shirley 1
Willis, Dr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Wilmers, Mary-Kay 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wilsill, Nidderdale, Yorkshire 1, 2, 3
Wilson, A. N. 1
Wilson, Harold 1, 2
Wilson, Mr (Aunt Evelyn’s employer) 1
Wilton House 1
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships 1
Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame, adapted by Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Windscale, Cumbria 1
Windsor, Duchess of see Simpson, Mrs Wallis
Windsor Castle 1, 2, 3
Wingate, Orde 1
Winnie the Pooh (Milne) 1, 2
Winter Gardens, Morecambe 1, 2
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare) 1
Wise, Ernie 1
Wise Blood (film) 1
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1, 2, 3
WNEW 1, 2
Wodehouse, P. G. 1, 2
Woman’s Own 1, 2, 3
Women Beware Women 1
Wood, Charles 1
Wood, John 1
Woodhouse Moor, Leeds 1
Woolf, Leonard 1, 2, 3, 4
Woolf, Virginia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Workers Accident Insurance Institute, Prague 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
World at One (radio programme) 1, 2, 3
World Within World (Spender) 1
Worsley, T. C. 1
Worsthorne, Peregrine 1, 2, 3
Worth, Irene 1
Wortley, Leeds 1, 2
Wren, Sir Christopher 1
Wrigley, Bernard 1, 2
Writers’ Union, Lvov 1
Writers’ Union, Moscow 1, 2
Wyeth, Andrew 1
Wykehamists: improbable claims for genitals of 1
Yates, Dornford 1
Yeats, W. B. 1
Yellow Book, The 1
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny 1
York, Michael 1
Yorkshire Evening Post 1, 2
Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra 1, 2
Young Mr Pitt, The (film) 1
Ypres 1, 2, 3
Zassoursky, Professor 1
Zetland, Marquis of 1
Zigger Zagger (Terson) 1
Zurbarán, Francisco de 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. Alan Bennett’s latest collection of prose, Untold Stories, was published in 2005 by Faber and Faber and Profile Books.
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)
Copyright
First published in 1994
by Faber and Faber Limited
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Revised edition first published in 1997
This ebook edition first published in 2008
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