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At the National Theatre in late 2009 Nicholas Hytner directed Bennett's play The Habit of Art, about the relationship between the poet W. H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. [13]

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Bennett is an agnostic. [20] He was raised Anglican and gradually "left it [the Church] over the years". [21]Bennett has spent his life observing, and much of the writing in this book describes places. It is cityscapes that interest him most, with people moving about in them; characteristically, he objects to WG Sebald's habit of emptying his landscapes of human presence. But his observations - the precise colour and texture of sooty walls in Leeds, for example, or the evening light - have the peculiarly hungry texture of the condemned man's final look at the sky. In most of these essays and diary entries he was quite evidently looking at everything he saw, thinking he might well be seeing it for the last time. Find sources: "Alan Bennett"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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Currently almost half-way through and, to be honest, it's a toss-up as to whether or not I'll get much further. Friends who I write letters to always say that my letters are like Alan Bennett and, having only seen the "Talking Heads" monologues and other Alan Bennett pieces on TV and having read the "Talking Heads" scripts, I've always taken this as a compliment. Having now read the appalling "Smut" and now some of this compilation, I'm not so sure! What a bl**dy joyless b*stard! Nightingale, Benedict (9 February 2009). "Nicholas Hytner on his time at the National Theatre". Times Online. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Archived version is available without subscription. Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore / Irving Berlin / W. McNeil Lowry (1963)

Playwright who rejected a knighthood says he's probably the last real monarchist left in Britain The Independent, 31 May 2009 In August 1960, Bennett – along with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook – gained fame after an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, with the show continuing in London and New York. He also appeared in My Father Knew Lloyd George. His television comedy sketch series On the Margin (1966) was erased; the BBC re-used expensive videotape rather than keep it in the archives. However, in 2014 it was announced that audio copies of the entire series had been found. [4]