Writing Home

by Alan Bennett

  Feeling You’re Behind (Nichols) 1 Feizor 2

  Fenton, George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Fenton, James 1, 2

  Fet (Russian writer) 1

  Fielder, M. H. ‘Fanny’ 1

  Financial Times 1, 2

  Fine Arts Society 1

  Finney, Albert 1

  First World War 1, 2, 3, 4

  Fitton, Joe 1

  Fitzherbert, Maria 1

  Fitzroy (George III’s equerry) 1, 2, 3

  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1

  Fleming, Ian 1

  Fletcher, Mrs (of Leeds) ix

  Fletcher, WPC 1

  Fletcher, Valerie 1

  Flight from the Enchanter, The (Murdoch) 1

  Ford, John 1, 2

  Forestry Commission 1

  Forman, Denis 1

  Forms of Talk (Goffman) 1n, 2, 3, 4

  Forster, E. M. 1

  Fortune, John 1, 2

  Fortune Press 1

  Fortunes of War (television drama series) 1, 2

  Forty Years On (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

  Foster, Giles 1

  Foster, Stephen 1

  Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire 1, 2

  Four Musketeers 1

  Fox, Charles James 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Fox, Mike 1

  Foyle’s Literary Luncheons 1

  Frame Analysis (Goffman) 1, 2, 3

  Franck, César: String Quartet 1

  Fraser, Kay 1

  Frayn, Michael 1

  Frears, Sam 1, 2

  Frears, Stephen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Frears, William 1

  Freud, Sigmund 1, 2

  Frost, David 1, 2

  Fruit Exchange, Victoria Street, Liverpool 1

  Fry, Christopher 1

  Fuseli, Henry 1

  Fyvel, T. R. (‘Tosco’) 1

  Gadney, Reg 1

  Galbraith, J. K. 1

  Galileo (Brecht) 1

  Galtieri, General: Miss Shepherd appeals on behalf of 1

  Gambon, Michael 1, 2

  Gandhi (film) 1

  Gandhi, Mahatma 1

  Garde Freinet, La 1

  Gardner, Joy 1

  Garland, Harriet 1

  Garland, Patrick 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  Garrick, David 1

  Garrick Club, London 1

  Gentleman, David 1

  George III, King 1, 2, 3, 4 see also Madness of George III, The (stage play), Madness of King George, The (film) George III and the Mad Business (Hunter and Macalpine) 5, 6, 7

  George III and the Politicians (Pares) 1

  George IV, King (as Prince of Wales) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  George V, King 1, 2, 3, 4

  Georgian State Theatre 1

  Gerry Ward (Bennett) 1

  Gertler, Mark 1

  Getting On (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Gibraltar shooting incident 1, 2, 3

  Gibson, Jane 1, 2

  Gibson, Walter 1

  Gielgud, Sir John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Giggleswick 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Giggleswick School 1, 2

  Gill, Peter 1

  Gilliatt, Penelope 1

  Gipton, Leeds 1

  Girl in My Soup, A 1

  Gizeh, Cairo 1

  Glasgow Town Hall 1

  Glorious Resurrection of Our Lord, The 1

  Glover, Brian 1

  Goalen, Barbara: models these days not a patch on 1

  Goff, Mr (of Bingley) 1

  Goffman, Erving 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7

  Golden Age, The (Grahame) 1

  Good Companions, The (Priestley) 1, 2

  Gooderson, David 1

  Goose Green, Falkland Islands 1, 2

  Gorbachev, Mikhail 1, 2

  Gordon, Richard 1

  Gorky, Maxim 1

  Gott’s Park, Leeds 1

  Gowrie, Grey 1

  Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de 1

  Graham, Dr Billy 1

  Grahame, Alastair 1

  Grahame, Elspeth 1

  Grahame, Kenneth 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Granada Television 1, 2, 3

  Grand Hotel, Harrogate 1

  Grand Hotel, Hartlepool 1

  Grand National Night (Christie) 1

  Grand Tour, The (Russell Harty television series) 1, 2

  Grant, Cary 1

  Grant, Hugh 1

  Granville-Barker, Harley 1

  Grauman’s Chinese Theater 1

  Graves, Rupert 1

  Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London 1

  Greene, Graham 1

  Greenhill, Lord 1

  Greenwood Theatre, London 1

  Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Grigson, Geoffrey 1

  Groeninge Museum, Bruges 1

  Group 1 2

  Gstaad 1

  Guardian 1, 2, 3, 4

  Guildford, Surrey 1, 2, 3

  Guildford Four 1

  Guinness, Sir Alec 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Guinness, Merula 1, 2

  Guitry, Sacha 1

  Gulak-Artemosky: The Ukrainian Cossack beyond the Danube 1

  Guthrie, Tyrone 1

  Habeas Corpus (Bennett) 1, 2, 3

  Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl 1, 2

  Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia 1

  Hailsham, Lord: snakes hands with a smoker 1;

  confronted by the spectre of redundancy 1;

  more humbug from 1

  Halifax 1, 2, 3, 4

  Hall, (Sir) Peter 1, 2

  Hall, Willis 1

  Halliwell, Kenneth 1, 2

  Hamilton, Joan 1

  Hamlet (Shakespeare) 1, 2

  Hampshire Police: still living in the fourteenth century 1

  Hampstead Ponds, London 1

  Hancock, Tony 1

  Hand Made Films 1

  Handl, Irene 1

  Handley, Tommy 1

  Hardwick, Elizabeth: every bit as good as her late husband 1

  Hardy, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4

  Harehills, Leeds 1

  Harlesden (television studio at): Gary Lineker’s thighs admired at 1

  Harris, Sir Arthur (‘Bomber’) 1, 2, 3

  Harris, Jeremy 1

  Harris, Margaret 1

  Harris, Percy 1, 2

  Harris, Sophia 1

  Harrison, Brian 1

  Harrison, Tony 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Harrogate 1

  Harrogate Flower Show 1, 2

  Hartlepool 1, 2, 3

  Hartley, George 1

  Hartley, Jean 1

  Harty, Myrtle 1

  Harty, Russell 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Harvard Club, New York: ‘Crazy Eddie’s’ cheek by jowl with 1

  Harwood, Ronald 1

  Haslam, John 1

  Hattersley, Roy 1, 2

  Havel, Vaclav 1

  Haworth, W. Yorkshire 11

  Hawthornden Prizegiving 1

  Hawthorne, Denys 1

  Hawthorne, Nigel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Haycraft, Anna 1

  Haycraft, Colin 1, 2, 3, 4

  Haydon Bridge, near Hexham, Northumberland 1

  Haygarth, Tony 1

  Hay ward Gallery, London 1

  Headingley Public Library, Leeds 1

  Heald, Pat 1, 2, 3

  Healey, Denis 1, 2

  Heaney, Seamus 1

  Heath, (Sir) Edward 1, 2, 3

  Heathrow Airport, London 1

  Hebden Bridge 1

  Heffer, Eric 1

  Heifetz, Jascha 1

  Heinz, Dru 1

  Heller, Eric 1

  Henderson, (Sir) Nicholas 1

  Henman, Ray 1

  Henry V (film) (Branagh) 1

  Henry VII, King 1

  Henty, G. A. 1

  Her Majesty’s Theatre, London 1, 2, 3

  Herbert, A. P. 1

 
Herbert, Jocelyn 1, 2, 3, 4

  ‘Here’ (Larkin) 1

  Heseltine, Michael 1, 2; held by hair and beaten unmercifully 3

  Heston, Charlton 1

  Hicks, Seymour 1

  High Windows (Larkin) 1

  Hilder, Rowland 1

  Hill, David 1, 2

  Hill Top, Leeds 1

  Hindle, Charlotte: AB startled by toplessness of 1

  Hines, Robert 1, 2

  Hird, Thora 1, 2, 3, 4

  Hitchcock, Alfred 1, 2

  Hitchen’s, Leeds 1

  Hitler, Adolf 1, 2, 3

  Hobbit, The (Tolkien) 1

  Hockney, David 1

  Hodge, Nellie 1

  Hoggart, Richard 1

  Holbeck, Leeds 1

  Holcroft Castings and Forgings, Thornbury 1

  Holding Out the Apple (farce) 1

  Holdsworth, Mr and Mrs 1

  Holland, Thelma 1

  Hollinghurst, Alan 1

  Hollo way, David 1

  Holt, William 1

  Holtby, Winifred 1

  Home (Storey) 1, 2

  Hood, Thomas 1

  Hope, Christopher 1

  Hope, Mary 1

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1

  Hopper, Edward 1; Evening Wind 2

  Horse Feathers (film) 1

  Hoskins, Bob 1

  Hotel in Amsterdam (Osborne) 1

  Hotel Pierre, New York 1

  Hotel Terminus (Ophuls documentary) 1

  Hotel Ukraina, Moscow 1, 2

  House at Pooh Corner, The (Milne) 1

  Housman, A. E. 1

  Howard, Brian 1

  Howard, Michael 1

  Howe, Sir Geoffrey 1

  Hubberholme church 1

  Hughes, Ted 1, 2

  Hull 1, 2, 3

  Hull Magic Circle 1

  Hull Royal Infirmary 1

  Humphries, Barry 1, 2

  Hungarian uprising (1956) 1, 2

  Hunter, Dr Richard 1, 2, 3

  Huntley, Raymond 1, 2

  Hurd, Douglas 1, 2

  Hurwitz, Emanuel 1

  Hussein, Saddam 1, 2;

  recommended to University of Oxford as potential benefactor 1

  Huston, John 1, 2

  Huxley, Aldous 1

  Hyde Park, London 1; bombing 2

  Hytner, Nicholas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  I Am a Camera (Isherwood) 1

  I Haven’t Unpacked (Holt) 1

  ‘I Remember, I Remember (Larkin) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Illustrations of Madness (Haslam) 1

  Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde) 1, 2

  In Britain 1

  In His Own Write (Lennon) 1

  In My Mind’s Eye (Redgrave) 1

  Inadmissible Evidence (Osborne) 1

  Independent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Ingleborough 1

  Insect Play, The (Capek) 1

  Insurance Man, The (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Intensive Care (Bennett) 1

  Interaction Ritual (Goffman) 1

  Inverforth House, Golders Hill: goings-on in grounds of 1

  IRA (Irish Republican Army) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Isherwood, Christopher 1, 2, 3, 4

  It’s My Pleasure (Hattersley) 1

  ITN 1

  ITV 1, 2

  Ivan the Terrible (film) 1

  Ivy, The, London 1

  J. see Miller, Jonathan

  Jakobovits, Lord 1

  James, P. D. 1

  James I, King 1

  Janouch, Gustav 1

  Jarman, Derek 1

  Jebb, Julian 1

  Jenkins, Roy 1

  Jerome, Jerome K. 1

  John Bull 1

  John Gielgud: An Actor and His Time (Gielgud with Miller and Powell) 1n Johnson, Amy 2

  Johnson, Frank 1

  Johnson, Paul 1

  Johnson, Dr Samuel 1

  Jones, Gemma 1, 2

  Jones, Griff Rhys 1

  Jones, Mrs H. 1

  Jones, Monica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Journals (Welch) 1

  Joyce, James 1

  Judd, Mary 1

  K. see McNally, Keith

  Kafka, Franz 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

  Kafka, Hermann 1, 2, 3, 4

  Kafka, Ottla 1

  Kafka’s Dick (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Kahn, Florence 1

  Kallman, Bertha 1

  Kallman, Chester 1

  Kallman, Edward 1, 2, 3

  Kallman, Syd 1

  Kapuscinski, Ryszard 1

  Karl off, Boris 1

  Karloff, Evie 1

  Kaufman, Gerald 1

  Kavanagh, Julie 1

  Kavanagh, P. J. 1

  Keats, John 1

  Keays, Sara 1

  Keith, Penelope 1

  Kemp, Edward 1

  Kennedy, John F. 1, 2

  Kennedy family 1

  Kenny, Sean 1

  Kertesz, André 1

  Kettlewell 1

  Kew Palace 1, 2

  Keynote Club, Manhattan 1

  Kilgallan, Dorothy 1

  Killing of Toad, The (Gooderson) 1

  King, Dave 1

  King, Lord 1

  Kipling, Rudyard 1

  Kirkstall, Leeds 1

  Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds 1

  Kirstein, Lincoln 1

  Knight, Esmond 1

  Komisarjevsky 1

  Korda, Alexander 1

  Kramer, Jacob 1

  Kris, Ernest 1

  Kurds 1

  Kurskaya cemetery, Moscow 1

  Kurz, Otto 1

  Labour Party 1, 2, 3

  Lacoste 1

  Lady of Letters, A 1

  Lady Ottoline Album: Snapshots of Her Famous Contemporaries (Morrell) 1

  Lambert, Gavin 1

  Lane, Pamela 1

  Larchwood (Railway Cuttings) Cemetery, Ypres 1, 2

  Larkin, Eva 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Larkin, Kitty 1

  Larkin, Philip 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

  Larkin, Sydney 1, 2, 3

  Larkin at Sixty (ed. Thwaite) 1, 2, 3n

  Late Show, The (television programme) 1

  Lawnswood, Leeds 1

  Lawrence, D. H. 1, 2, 3

  Lawrence, Gertrude 1

  Lawrence, T. E. 1, 2

  Le Carré, John 1

  Leacock, Stephen 1

  ‘Leave for Cape Wrath tonight’ (Auden) 1

  Lebanon 1

  Lee, Gipsy Rose 1

  Leeds 1, 2;

  AB born and brought up in 1;

  beggars in 1; trams in 2; see also under individual districts and buildings

  Leeds Crown Court 1

  Leeds Festival 1

  Leeds Grand Theatre 1, 2, 3, 4

  Leeds Modern School 1, 2

  Leeds Town Hall 1, 2, 3

  Leeds United Football Club 1

  Leeson, Nick 1

  Legend, Myth Magic in the Image of the Artist (Kris and Kurz) 1

  Leicester 1, 2

  Leigh, Edward 1

  Leigh, Vivien 1

  Leigh Hunt, Barbara 1

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilich 1

  Lennon, John 1, 2

  Leonard, Dr Graham, Bishop of London 1

  Leonardo da Vinci: John the Baptist 1

  Les Baux 1

  Less Deceived, The (Larkin) 1, 2, 3, 4

  ‘Letter to Lord Byron’ (Auden) 1n

  Letwin, Shirley 1

  Leyburn 1

  Lewis, C. S. 1

  Lewis, Wyndham 1

  Liberace 1

  Library Association Record 1, 2

  Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph 1

  Life and Times in NW1 (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  ‘Life with a Hole in it, The’ (Larkin) 1

  Lilley, Peter 1

  Lincoln Cathedral 1

  Lineker, Gary 1: thighs the talk of Harlesden 2

&n
bsp; Listener, the 1, 2

  Liszt, Franz 1

  Littler, Prince 1, 2

  Liverpool/Liverpudlians 1, 2, 3, 4

  Liverpool RC Cathedral 1

  Lloyd, Innes 1, 2, 3

  Lloyd, Marie 1

  Lloyd Pack, Roger 1, 2

  Lobb’s (bootmakers of St James’s, London) 1

  Locke, Philip 1, 2, 3

  Lofting, Hugh 1

  Logue, Christopher 1

  London Review of Books 1, 2, 3, 4

  London Weekend Television (LWT) 1

  Long, the Short and the Tall, The (Hall) 1

  Lonnergan (photographer) 1

  Look Back in Anger (Osborne) 1

  Los Angeles Film Festival 1

  Losowsky, Professor 1

  Lost Horizon (film) 1

  Loti, Pierre 1

  Lotterby, Sid 1

  Lowry, L. S. 1

  Loy, Myrna 1

  Lukács, György 1

  Lutyens, Sir Edwin 1, 2, 3, 4

  Luxor 1, 2, 3

  Lvov 1

  Lynn, Ralph 1

  Lyric Studio, Hammersmith, London 1

  Lyttelton stage, National Theatre, London 1

  Mac (dresser to Sir John Gielgud) 1, 2, 3

  Macalpine, Ida 1, 2, 3

  McCullers, Carson 1

  McDougall, Gordon 1

  McEnroe, John 1

  McFarlane, Bruce 1, 2

  Macgregor, Dr Roy 1, 2

  Mackereth, Betty 1, 2, 3, 4

  McKillop, Don 1

  Maclean, Donald 1, 2

  McNally, Keith 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  MacNeice, Louis 1, 2

  McNeil, Hector 1

  McNicol, Jean 1

  Madan, Geoffrey 1

  Madness of George III, The (stage play) (Bennett) 1, 2, 3

  Madness of King George, The (film) 1, 2, 3

  Magdalen College, Oxford 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Magoun, Francis Peabody 1

  Mailer, Norman 1

  Majestic Hotel, Harrogate 1

  Major, John 1, 2, 3

  Man and Music 1

  Man Born to be King, The (Sayers) 1

  Manchester 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Mann, Klaus 1

  Manners, Colonel 1

  Manning, Bernard 1

  Manning, Olivia 1

  Mansfield, Katherine 1, 2

  Marchioness disaster 1

  Marcos, Ferdinand: AB’s fellow feeling with 1

  Margaret, HRH The Princess 1, 2, 3,

  1

  Marie Antoinette 1, 2

  Marlow, Tony 1, 2

  Marryat, Captain 1

  Marsh, Rupert 1

  Marshall & Snelgrove, Leeds 1

  Martin, Millicent 1

  Martin-Harvey, Sir John 1, 2

  Marvell Press 1

  Marx Brothers 1

  Massenet, Jules 1

  Massey, Anna 1

  Matania, F. 1

  Matthews, James Tilly 1

  Maugham, W. Somerset 1, 2

  Maxwell, Gavin 1

  Maxwell, Robert 1

  ‘MCMXIV’ (Larkin) 1

  Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia WooIf (Bennett) 1, 2, 3

  Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) 1

  Meat Trades Journal 1, 2

  Medwin, Michael 1

  Mendes, Sam 1

  Mercer, Terry 1

  Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare) 1