by Alan Bennett
His latest collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, was published in 2016. Of his two previous collections, Writing Home was a number-one bestseller and Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006. Bennett’s Six Poets, Hardy to Larkin: an Anthology, was published in 2014. His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.
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
THE HABIT OF ART
PEOPLE
HYMN and COCKTAIL STICKS
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)
THE HISTORY BOYS: THE FILM
autobiography
THE LADY IN THE VAN
WRITING HOME
UNTOLD STORIES
A LIFE LIKE OTHER PEOPLE’S
fiction
THREE STORIES
(The Laying on of Hands, The Clothes They Stood Up In, Father! Father! Burning Bright)
THE UNCOMMON READER
SMUT: TWO UNSEEMLY STORIES
Musical Numbers
‘Yours’
(music Gonzalo Roig, lyrics Albert Gamse and Jack Sherr)
‘You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It) (music James V. Monaco, lyrics Joseph McCarthy)
‘A, You’re Adorable’
(music Sid Lippmann, lyrics Buddy Kaye and Fred Wise, arranged by George Fenton)
‘Love and Marriage’
(music Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics Sammy Cahn, arranged by Nelson Riddle, sung by Frank Sinatra)
‘Good Morning’
(music Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics Arthur Freed, arranged by George Fenton)
‘Blow the Wind Southerly’
(traditional, arranged by George Fenton)
‘Good Golly, Miss Molly
(music and lyrics John Marascalco and Robert “Bumps” Blackwell, sung by Little Richard)
‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’
(music Jimmy McHugh, lyrics Dorothy Fields, arranged by George Fenton)
‘I Can Give You the Starlight’
(music and lyrics Ivor Novello, arranged by George Fenton, sung by Gary Wood)
‘Congratulations’
(music and lyrics Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, arranged by George Fenton)
‘Side by Side’
(music and lyrics Harry M. Woods, arranged by George Fenton)
‘Get Happy’
(music Harold Arlen, lyrics Ted Koehler, arranged by George Fenton)
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