Writing Home

by Alan Bennett

  Accord 1

  Action Aid 1

  Acton, Harold 1

  Adam, Ken 1

  Adam Smith Institute, London 1, 2

  Adams, Richard 1

  Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool: not all that it’s cracked up to be 1

  Adler, Larry 1

  Afternoon Off (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Agate, James 1

  Age of Chivalry exhibition, Royal Academy: curious graffiti at 1

  Ages of Man, The (Gielgud one-man show) 1, 2

  Aids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Ailes, Anne 1

  Airedale Hospital, Keighley 1, 2, 3

  Alcoholics Anonymous: AB inveigled into attending 1

  Aldwych Theatre, London 1

  Alice in Wonderland (Carroll) 1, 2

  Alice in Wonderland (Miller production) 1

  All Day on the Sands (Bennett) 1, 2, 3

  All Souls College, Oxford 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Allen, Woody 1

  Alternative Service Book 1, 2

  American Friendship Society 1

  Amis, Kingsley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Anderson, David 1

  Anderson, Lindsay 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Andreev, Leonid 1

  Andrews, Anthony 1

  Andrews, Eamonn: Miss Shepherd offers to stand in for 1

  Animal Farm (Orwell) 1, 2

  Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) 1

  Anouilh, Jean 1

  Any Questions (radio programme) 1

  A. P. Watt Ltd, 1

  Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London 1, 2

  Appleby horse fair 1

  Aquileia 1

  Archer, Lord 1

  Arles 1

  Armley, Leeds 1, 2, 3

  Armley Baths, Leeds 1

  Armley Library, Leeds 1, 2

  Armley National School, Leeds 1

  Armstrong, Alun: sudden change of character of, on opening a Gideon’s Bible 1

  Army Cadet Corps: persistence of puttees in 1

  Arundel Castle 1

  ‘Arundel Tomb, An’ (Larkin) 1

  Ashcroft, Dame Peggy 1

  Ashdown, Paddy 1

  Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1; distasteful Leonardo in 2

  Asylums (Goffman) 1

  ‘Aubade’ (Larkin) 1

  Auden, W. H. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Auden: An American Friendship (Miller) 1

  Auden in Love (Farnan) 1, 2

  Austen, Jane 1, 2

  Austwick 1, 2

  Avedon, Richard 1

  Axelrod, George 1

  Bachardy, Don 1

  Bacon, Francis 1

  Baddeley, Hermione 1

  Bader, Douglas 1, 2

  Bagnold, Enid 1

  Bailey, Paul 1, 2, 3

  Baker, Sir Herbert 1

  Baker, Kenneth 1

  Baker, Stanley 1

  Balkan Trilogy (Manning) 1

  Balliol College, Oxford 1; ugliness of 2

  Bamber, David 1

  Banbury 1, 2

  Banbury, Frith 1

  Bancroft, Sir Squire 1

  Barbie, Klaus 1

  Barker, Howard 1

  Barnes, Julian 1

  Barnett, Lady Isobel: AB’s sister in suffering 1

  Bart, Lionel 1

  Bassett, John 1

  Bates, Alan 1, 2

  Baxter, Keith 1

  Bayley, John 1

  BBC 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28;

  and A Day Out 1, 2, 3;

  Home Service 1;

  Light Programme 1;

  Radio 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Third Programme 1

  BBC1 1

  BBC2 1, 2

  BBC Northwest 1

  Beaton, Cecil 1, 2

  Beckett, Samuel 1, 2

  Beckinsale, Richard 1

  Beeching, Dr: as thin end of an increasingly nasty wedge 1

  Beerbohm, Max 1

  Beeston, Leeds 1

  Beginning Again (Woolf) 1

  Belfast 1, 2

  Bell, Virginia 1

  Belle Isle, Leeds 1

  Bennett, Arnold (AB’s cousin) 1, 2

  Bennett, Bill (AB’s uncle) 1, 2

  Bennett, Geoff (AB’s cousin) 1

  Bennett, George (AB’s uncle) 1

  Bennett, Gordon (AB’s brother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  in Second World War 1, 2, 3, 4;

  baptism 1;

  and books 1;

  and father’s dance-band phase 1;

  in army cadets at Guildford 1

  Bennett, Jill 1, 2

  Bennett, Jim (AB’s uncle) 1

  Bennett, Lilian (née Peel; AB’s mother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;

  and books 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and brother Clarence 1, 2 ;

  in cafes 1, 2;

  desire to ‘mix’ 1, 2

  and education, 1, 2, 3;

  evacuation to Wilsill 1;

  Haworth visit 11;

  in hotels 1, 2 ;

  meets T. S. Eliot 1, 2, 3;

  and Oxford University 1, 2, 3 ;

  in Weston-super-Mare 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Bennett, Walter (AB’s father) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  against social pretensions 1, 2;

  anniversary of death 1 ;

  and books 1, 2, 3, 4;

  in cafes 1, 2;

  desire to ‘mix’ 1, 2;

  and education 1, 2;

  employment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  and family’s evacuation to Wilsill 1, 2;

  grave of 1;

  in hotels 1, 2, 3 ;

  illness 1;

  and Lilian’s sisters 1, 2;

  literary ambitions 1;

  as musician 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and Oxford University 1

  Benson, A. C 1, 2

  Benson, E. F. 1, 2

  Benson, Sir Frank 1

  Bendey, Phyllis: as local-lass-makes-good 1

  Berenson, Bernard 1

  Berkeley nuclear power station 1

  Berkoff, Steven 1, 2

  Berlin 1

  Berlin, Isaiah 1: and Ken Dodd 2

  Bernstein, Leonard 1

  Bernstein, Sidney 1

  Betjeman, John 1, 2, 3

  Bettany, Michael (Ministry of Defence employee) 1

  Better Class of Person: An Autobiography, A (Osborne) 1

  Better Late (Oxford Theatre Group revue) 1

  Betty’s Café, Leeds 1

  Beyond the Fringe (Bennett, Cook, Miller and Moore) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;

  and AB’s Anglican sermon 1;

  in America (1962) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  Bader and 1;

  in Brighton 1, 2 ;

  first script onference 1;

  in London 1, 2;

  second edition 1

  Big Breakfast, The (television programme) 1

  Billington, Michael 1

  Bird, John 1

  Birt, John 1

  Birthday Party, The (Pinter) 1

  Blackburn Cathedral 1n

  Blackpool 1, 2

  Blair, Tony 1

  Blake, William 1

  Blier, Betrand 1

  Bliss, Arthur 1

  Blockley, Gloucestershire 1

  Blomfield, Sir Reginald 1

  Bloomsbury Group 1

  Blunt, Anthony 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Blunt, Dorothy 1

  Blunt, Violet 1

  Blunt, Wilfrid 1

  BMA (British Medical Association) 1

  Bodleian Library, Oxford 1

  Bogarde, Dirk 1

  Bokassa, ex-Emperor of the Central African Republic 1

  Bolshoi Ballet 1, 2

  Bolton disaster (1946) 1

  Book of Common Prayer 1

  Booker, Christopher 1

  Booker Prize 1, 2

  Bootle 1

  Bosnia 1, 2

  Boston Spa Tennis Club 1

  Bottomley, Virginia 1

  Bowles,
Paul 1

  Bowman, Ruth 1, 2

  Boxer, Mark 1, 2

  Boyle, Andrew 1

  Bradbury, Ernest 1

  Bradford, W. Yorkshire 1, 2

  Bradford football ground disaster 1, 2

  Bradford Museum 1

  ‘Bragg, Melvyn’ 1, 2, 3

  Brahms, Johannes 1, 2

  Brain, Roger 1

  Braine, John 1

  Bramley, Leeds 1, 2

  Branagh, Kenneth 1

  Brasenose College, Oxford 1

  Brasserie Bofinger, Paris 1

  Brecht, Bertolt 1, 2

  Brennan, Maeve 1, 2, 3

  Brenton, Howard 1

  Brewster, Barry 1

  Brideshead Revisited (Waugh) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Brien, Alan 1, 2

  Briers, Richard 1

  Brighton, Sussex 1, 2, 3

  Brighton bombing (1984) 1

  Bris, Roger de 1

  Bristol RC Cathedral 1

  Bristol Children’s Hospital 1

  British Library, London 1

  Britten, Benjamin 1, 2

  Brod, Max 1, 2

  Brontë, Emily 1

  Brontë family 1, 2, 3, 4

  Brook, Peter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Brookes, Susan 1, 2, 3

  Brookes, W [arwick] 1, 2, 3, 4

  Brooks, Mel 1

  Broughton Castle 1, 2

  Brown, Cedric 1

  Browne, Coral 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Brueghel, Jan: Fall of Icarus 1

  Bruges 1, 2

  Bryant, Michael 1, 2

  Brynmor Jones Library, Hull 1, 2, 3

  Buchan, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Buchanan, Jack 1, 2

  Buckingham Palace, London 1

  Budd, Bill 1

  Budden, Professor Lionel 1

  Bulger, James 1

  Bunin, Ivan Alexeievich 1

  Buñuel, Luis 1

  Burgess, Guy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Burke, Edmund 1, 2, 3

  Burley Woodhead school 1, 2

  Burne-Jones, Edward Coley 1

  Burton, Richard 1, 2

  Burton, Sibyl 1

  Buscot Park 1

  Bush, George 1, 2

  Butler, Eamonn 1

  Butler, R. A. 1

  Butterfield, Herbert 1

  ‘Byline’ (television series) 1

  Byng, Douglas 1

  Byril Farm, Wilsill, Nidderdale, Yorkshire 1

  Byron, Robert 1, 2, 3

  Cadell, Seline 1

  Caine, Michael 1, 2

  Caird Hall, Dundee 1

  Cairo 1

  Cairo Museum 1, 2

  Callow, Simon 1, 2

  Cambridge 1

  Cambridge Footlights 1

  Cambridge Reference Library 1

  Cambridge University: AB tries for a scholarship 1, 2;

  Housman at 1;

  and Hungarian rising 1;

  Joint-Services Russian course 1, 2, 3

  Camden Brasserie, London 1

  Camden Town, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

  Campbell, Donald 1

  Campbell, Nell 1

  Camus, Albert 1, 2

  Canetti, Elias 1

  Cantona, Eric 1

  Caretaker, The (Pinter) 1

  Carey, John 1

  Caroline of Brunswick, Princess 1

  Carpenter, Edward 1

  Carpenter, Humphrey 1, 2

  Carter, Jim 1, 2

  Cash, Tony 1

  Cassel, Sir Ernest 1

  Casson, Sir Lewis 1

  Catchword (television programme) 1

  Caton, R. A. 1

  Cavell, Edith 1

  Cecil, Lord David 1

  Chamberlain, Neville 1

  Changing Room, The (Storey) 1

  Channon, Chips 1, 2

  Chapman, Robin 1

  Charge of the Light Brigade, The (film) 1, 2, 3

  Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Charlotte, Queen 1

  Chas Walker & Sons (of Leeds) 1

  Chatsworth 1

  Chatwin, Bruce 1, 2

  Cheers 1

  Chekhov, Anton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Chernobyl disaster 1, 2

  Chez Solange, Cranbourne Street, London 1

  Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame 1

  Chichester, Sussex 1, 2

  Chippendale’s 1, 2

  Church of England 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Churchill, Sir Winston 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Ggarette Liz 1

  Civic Restaurant, Town Hall, Leeds 1, 2

  Claridge’s Hotel, London 1, 2

  Clark, Alan, MP 1, 2, 3

  Clark, Lord (Kenneth) 1, 2

  Clarke, Kenneth 1, 2

  Claudel, Paul 1

  Cocktail Party, The (Eliot) 1

  Codron, Michael: infant impresario 1; white suit of 2;

  replacement of actress’s cardigan by 1

  Cohen, Janet 1

  Cole, G. D. H. 1

  Coleman, David 1

  Coliseum, London 1, 2

  College English (Gibson) 1

  College of Cardinals: cardboard urged on as material for papal crown 1

  Collier, Patience: drunken friends of 1

  Collingwood, Lord 1

  Colossi of Memnon 1

  ‘Coming’ (Larkin) 1, 2

  Common Market 1, 2

  Comper, Ninian 1

  Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Condemned Playground, The (Connolly) 1

  Connaught Hotel, London 1

  Connolly, Cyril 1, 2, 3, 4

  Connors, Jimmy 1

  Conquest, Robert 1, 2, 3, 4

  Conservative Party 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Cook, Peter 1, 77, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Cooper, Diana 1

  Cooper, Giles 1

  Co-operative Society 1, 2, 3, 4

  Cortot, Alfred 1

  Cossins, Jimmy 1, 2

  Cotán, Juan Sanchez 1

  Cottage Road cinema, Leeds 1

  Coulsdon 1, 2

  Courtenay, Tom 1

  Coventry 1, 2, 3

  Coventry Award of Merit 1

  Coventry Central Library 1

  Coward, Noël 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Cox, Brian 1

  Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of

  Canterbury 1, 2, 3, 4; Thomas Cranmer prize 5

  Cranston, Maurice 1

  Cranston Street Hall, Edinburgh 1

  Craven 1

  Crazy Gang 1

  Criminal, The (film) 1

  Criss Cross Quiz (television programme) 1

  Crittall, Ariel 1

  Crompton, Richmal 1, 2

  Crown cinema, Tong Road, Leeds 1

  Crown Hotel, Harrogate 39, 1

  Crown Prosecution Service 1

  Cuckoo in the Nest (Travers) 1

  Cunard, Emerald 1

  Dadd, Richard 1

  ‘Daddy’ (Plath) 1

  Daily Express 1

  Daily Mail 1, 2, 3

  Daily Mirror 1

  Daily Telegraph 1, 2, 3, 4

  Dalby, Rev., 1

  Daldry, Stephen 1

  Dale, Janet 1

  Dales Museum 1

  Daniels, Stanley 1

  Davies, Andrew 1

  Davies, A [nne] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Davies, Ben 1, 2

  Davies, Robin 1, 2, 3, 4

  Davies, Trevor 1, 2, 3, 4

  Davis, Bette 1, 2

  Davis, Carl 1, 2, 3

  Day Out, A (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Day-Lewis, Dan 1

  de Candole, H. H. Vully, Bishop of Knaresborough 1

  de L’Isle, Lord 1, 2

  De Profundis (Wilde) 1

  Death on the Rock (Thames Television programme) 1

  Death Railway, Thailand 1

  Delius, Frederick 1, 2

  Delmé Quartet 1, 2

  Dench, Judi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Denison, Michael 1

  Department
of Health 1, 2, 3

  Devine, George 1, 2

  Devonshire, Andrew 1

  Diaghilev, Serge 1, 2

  Diana, Princess of Wales 1, 2, 3, 4

  Diaries (Channon) 1

  Diaries (Clark) 1

  Diary of Adrian Mole (Townsend) 1, 2

  Diary of Virginia Woolf, The (ed. Bell) 1n

  Dickens, Charles 1, 2, 3

  Dickens, Monica 1

  Dictionary of National Biography 1

  Didcot 1

  Dietrich, Marlene 1

  Dinner at Noon (Bennett) 1, 2, 3

  Ditton, Jason 1n

  Dixon, Mr (teacher) 1

  Dodd, Ken 1; and Wittgenstein 2

  Don Giovanni (Gielgud production) 1, 2

  Donaldson, Willie 1

  Donat, Robert 1

  Donmar Studios, London 1

  Donnellan, Declan 1

  Dorchester Abbey 1

  Dorchester Hotel, London 1

  Douglas-Home, William 1

  Downbeat 1

  Downs, Coulter & Co (of Bradford) 1

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 1

  Dozo, Colonel: divine intervention in discovery of 1

  Dragon School 1

  Dream Days (Grahame) 1

  Dresser, The (Harwood) 1, 2

  Duckworth’s (Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd) 1

  Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville 1, 2, 3

  Duvitski, Janine 1

  Dykes, J. B. 1

  Dymant, Dora 1

  Ealing Studios 1, 2, 3

  Eaton, Michael 1

  Eddington, Paul 1

  Edgar, David 1

  Edinburgh 1

  Edinburgh Festival 1

  Edward VII, King 1, 2, 3

  Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor; as Prince of Wales) 1

  Egerton, Judy 1

  Eisenstein, Sergei 1

  Electric Cinema, Bradford 1

  Eliot, T. S. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Elizabeth II, Queen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Elliott, Denholm 1

  Elliott, Michael 1, 2

  Ellis, Alice Thomas see Haycraft, Anna

  Ely 1

  Ely Cathedral 1, 2

  Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1

  Emmerdale Farm (television programme) 1

  Emperor, The (Kapuscinski) 1

  Encounters (Goffman) 1

  England in the Age of the American Revolution (Namier) 1, 2

  English Heritage 1, 2

  English Nature 1

  Englishman Abroad, An (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Enjoy (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  ENSA (Entertainments National Services Association) 1

  Entertainer, The (Osborne) 1

  Epstein, Jacob 1

  Eton College 1

  Evans, Dame Edith 1

  Evening News 1

  Evening Standard 1, 2, 3

  Ewelme 1

  Exchange and Mart 1, 2

  Exeter College, Oxford 1, 2, 3, 4

  Experimental Theatre Club 1

  Eyre, Richard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Eyre, Ronald 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Faber and Faber 1, 2

  Falklands War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Far Headingley, Leeds 1

  Farnan, Dorothy J. 504n, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Fauré, Gabriel: Piano Quartet 1

  Fawlty Towers (television series) 1

  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 1