Across seven decades, Alan Bennett has revealed a great deal of himself through plays and screenplays. In 1994, with the ...

The 91-year-old ponders mortality and loss in his fourth instalment ...

Alan Bennett has been a welcome chipper-in to British cinema over the past 40 years, but he is now 91, and his latest project is the first since 1984’s A Private Function to have actually originated ...

The grump who rails against the world is a much-loved type, and British life has always been stiff with grouches. Scrooge was ...

SMUT, by Alan Bennett. Picador, 152 pp. $14 paper. In "Smut," a devilishly charming pair of novellas, Alan Bennett introduces us to two fusty middle-aged women and sets them on a course for ...

Bennett is 82 now, and lives much of the time in NW1 – the very street once home to the Lady in the Van, who parked in his front garden, in a neighbourhood memorialised in the Mark Boxer comic strip, ...

Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett’s masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain’s ...