Alan Bennett Biography

Birth of Alan Bennett, son of a co-op butcher

Collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brings Alan Bennett instant fame

Collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brings Alan Bennett instant fame

Alan Bennetts first stage play Forty Years On

Alan Bennetts play for TV, A Day Out

Alan Bennetts play for TV, A Little Outing

Alan Bennetts play for TV, Intensive Care

Alan Bennetts play for TV, An Englishman Abroad

Talking Heads, a series of monologues for television which were later performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992. A sextet of poignantly comic pieces, each depicting several stages in the characters decline from an initial state of denial or ignorance of their predicament, through a slow realisation of the hopelessness of their situation, progressing to a bleak or ambiguous conclusion

Alan Bennetts play for TV, A Question of Attribution

The radio play is broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with actress Maggie Smith reprising her role of Miss Shepherd and Alan Bennett playing himself

The film version of The Lady in the Van is based on his experiences with a tramp called Miss Shepherd, who lived on Bennetts driveway in several dilapidated vans for more than fifteen years