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Alan Bennett

May 2024

  • Lali Sokolov (Jonah Hauer-King) walks through Auschwitz with the Nazi officer Stefan Baretzki (Jonas Nay)

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the adaptation of bestselling book The Tattooist of Auschwitz

    Jonah Hauer-King , Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey star in the chilling drama. Plus, Taskmaster on top form. Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2024

  • Tristram Powell for Obits

    Tristram Powell obituary

    TV director who made dramas by some of the top screenwriters of the 1980s and 90s, such as Alan Bennett and Alan Plater

January 2024

  • The library in the doll’s house, a 1:12 scale replica on an Edwardian residence, that was given as a gift from the nation to Queen Mary after the first world war.

    Tom Parker Bowles picked for mini library project championed by his mum

    Tom Parker Bowles among 21 writers providing snapshot of contemporary literature in initiative supported by the queen

July 2023

  • A Private Function - 1985<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Handmade Films/Kobal/Shutterstock (5878822f) Tony Haygarth, John Normington, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths A Private Function - 1985 Director: Malcolm Mowbray Handmade Films BRITAIN Scene Still Comedy

    Malcolm Mowbray obituary

    Film-maker who directed the 1984 classic A Private Function, starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith

February 2023

  • Judi Dench and Bally Gill during the filming of Allelujah.

    ‘We fetishised being young – it’s just stupid!’: Judi Dench and Richard Eyre on ageing, Covid and saving the NHS

    Shot in 2021, a film of Allelujah, Alan Bennett’s 2018 play set on a geriatric ward, is released next month. How relevant does it remain? Its stars, including Jennifer Saunders and Bally Gill, share their thoughts during production – and more than a year later

December 2022

  • Alan Bennett.

    Alan Bennett contemplates losing friends and the Queen in 2022 diary

    The playwright details Barry Cryer’s comedic phone calls and reveals what her majesty said to Prunella Scales in his annual journal for London Review of Books

October 2022

  • Richard Austin 2000 SIR JOHN BETJEMAN RELAXES IN SIDMOUTH WITH FILM DIRECTOR JONATHAN STEDALL Richard Austin News Pictures

    Jonathan Stedall obituary

    Documentary-maker who covered politics, historical figures and great railway journeys in his nearly three decades at the BBC

September 2022

  • A farce masterclass … Adrian Scarborough and Sophie Thompson as Maurice and Rosemary Ransome in The Clothes They Stood Up In.

    The Clothes They Stood Up In review – Alan Bennett tale dressed to impress

    Adrian Scarborough stars in his own adaptation of Bennett’s story, featuring convincing new dialogue and staged with visual panache
  • Jennifer Saunders in Allelujah.

    Allelujah review – sweet but slight Alan Bennett hospital drama

    A-listers are tended to by formidable nurse Jennifer Saunders in Richard Eyre’s adaptation of the 2018 play about a struggling geriatric hospital
  • Michael Billington

    On stage and when we met at the theatre, the Queen was a figure of quiet wisdom and humour

    Michael Billington
    The monarch was sympathetically depicted by dramatists and at a 1999 production of Oklahoma! her eyes lit up when she recalled her own theatrical outings

August 2022

  • Actor Samuel Barnett.

    ‘I want to do things I’ve never done’: The History Boys’ Samuel Barnett on his new one-man show

    Making his fringe debut with a show about a troubled standup, the actor explains why he loves solo performance, his issues with The History Boys, and why this government’s days are numbered

June 2022

  • Eric Ravilious’s painting Elementary Flying Training School.

    Story of doomed war artist Eric Ravilious told in new film

  • Reigning Queens, 1985, by Andy Warhol.

    The Queen in culture: how art puts a public face to a private life

May 2022

  • Alan Bennett

    Book of the day
    House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett review – typical Bennett on atypical times

    The octogenarian playwright documents the baffling absurdities of lockdown with his usual flair

April 2022

  • Prod DB A© PfH Ltd. - Thorn EMI / DR DREAMCHILD (DREAMCHILD) de Gavin Millar 1985 GB avec Coral Browne alice au pays des merveilles, grand mere, lutin, mutant, creature, chapelier, lapin geant<br>PN7741 Prod DB A© PfH Ltd. - Thorn EMI / DR DREAMCHILD (DREAMCHILD) de Gavin Millar 1985 GB avec Coral Browne alice au pays des merveilles, grand mere, lutin, mutant, creature, chapelier, lapin geant

    Gavin Millar obituary

  • Alan Bennett

    Alan Bennett’s pandemic diaries: ‘Good Friday, and this year Pontius Pilate is not the only one washing his hands’

December 2021

  • Alan Bennett.

    Alan Bennett dedicates Kipling poem A Dead Statesman to Boris Johnson

  • Over my dead body, vicar … Matthew Cottle (left, as Canon Throbbing), and Kirsty Besterman (as Constance Wicksteed) in Habeas Corpus.

    Habeas Corpus review – Canon Throbbing is back in tragically unfunny farce

November 2021

  • A scene from Sunday In The Park With George

    Paint the stage red: plays about artists – in pictures

    As the Young Vic announces it will premiere The Collaboration, Anthony McCarten’s play about Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, look back at shows about Picasso, Kahlo, Dalí and other great artists

May 2021

  • Frances de la Tour as Muriel.

    Lockdown culture
    A brief encounter with Muriel, Alan Bennett’s latest talking head

    Frances de la Tour plays another of the playwright’s fascinating women in a three-minute sketch for Nottingham Playhouse’s digital series
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