by Alan Bennett
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare) 1
Merton College, Oxford 1
Metamorphosis (Kafka) 1, 2, 3
Miami Zoo, Florida 1
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare) 1
Miles, Maurice 1
Millar, Gavin 1, 2
Miller, Arthur 1
Miller, Charles 1
Miller, John 1
Miller, Jonathan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Miller, T [om] 1, 2
Miller, Walter James 1, 2
Millington, Mary 1
Milne, A. A. 1, 2, 3
Milne, Christopher Robin 1
Milner, Roger 1
miners’ strike (1984) 1, 2, 3
Mirabelle restaurant 1
Mirren, Helen 1
Mr Chips (musical) 1
Mistral, Frédéric 1
Mitchell, Thomas 1
Mitchell, Warren: confused with Warren Hastings 1
Mitford, Nancy 1, 2, 3
Mnouchkine, Ariane 1
Mo, Timothy 1, 2, 3
Moffatt, John 1
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo 1
Mondrian, Piet 1
Monitor (television series) 1, 2
Monteith, Charles 1
Montes, Lola 1
Montgomery, Field Marshal 1
Montgomery, Elizabeth 1
Moorcroft, Judy 1
Moore, Charles 1
Moore, Dudley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Moore, Temple 1
More, Kenneth 1
Morecambe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Morecambe, Eric 1
Moritz, Reiner 1
Morley, Robert 1
Morley Grammar School 1
Morrell, Lady Ottoline 1, 2, 3
Morris, William 1
Morrison, Blake 1, 2
Mort, Graham 1, 2, 3
Moscow 1, 2
Mosley, Oswald 1
Motion, Andrew 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Motley 1, 2
Mount Pisgah chapel, Leeds 1
Mowbray, Malcolm 1, 2, 3, 4
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1
Municipal Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool 1
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot) 1
Murdoch, Dame Iris 1, 2
Murdoch, Rupert: Russell Harty attends parties of 1;
Mrs Thatcher pulls crackers with 1;
University of Oxford truckles to 1
Murray, Gilbert 1
‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ (Auden) 1
Nabokov, Vladimir 1, 2, 3
Namier, Sir Lewis 1, 2, 3
National Front 1, 2
National Gallery, London 1
National Health Service 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
National Observer 1
national service 1, 2, 3, 4
National Theatre, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
National Trust 1, 2
‘Naturally the Foundation Will Bear Your Expenses’ (Larkin) 1
Negus, Arthur 1
Neill, Patrick 1
Neve, Michael 1, 2
Nevinson, Christopher 1
New Statesman 1
New Theatre, London 1
New York 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
New Yorker, 1, 2, 3
Newcastle: all vomit and love-bites 1; Cathedral 2
Newman, Cardinal 1; and Beverley Nichols 2
News at Ten (television programme) 1
News of the World 1, 2, 3
Newsnight (television programme) 1
Nichols, Beverley 1, 2
Nichols, Peter 1, 2, 3, 4
Nicholson, Margaret 1, 2
Nicholson, Nigel 1
Nicholson, Nora 1, 2, 3, 4
Nicolson, Harold 1, 2, 3, 4
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1
Nijinsky, Vaslav 1, 2
Nile River 1
No Man’s Land (Pinter) 1
Normal Heart, The (Kramer) 1
Normington, John 1, 2
Norse, Harold 1
North, Lord 1, 2
Norton, Kevin 1
Norwich 1
Not So Much a Programme More a Way of Life (television programme) 1, 2
‘Not Waving But Drowning’ (Smith) 1
Notes Towards a Definition of Culture (Eliot) 1
Novikov (Russian writer) 1
Novodevichnaya Cemetery, Moscow 1
Novy Mir 1
Nuffield College, Oxford 1n
Nunn, Trevor 1
Observer 1, 2
Odeon, the, New York 1, 2, 3
Oedipus (Brook production) 1, 2, 3
Old Country, The (Bennett) 1, 2, 3
Old Crowd, The (Bennett) 1, 2
Old Vic, The, London 1, 2, 3
Oliver! (musical) 1
Olivier, Lord 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Olivier stage, National Theatre, London 1, 2
Oman, Julia Trevelyan 1, 2, 3, 4
On the Margin (Bennett) 1, 2
One Fine Day (Bennett) 1, 2
1 Boulevard Haussmann (Bennett) 2, 3, 4
One Over the Eight (Cook) 1
O’Neill, Jamie 1
Ono, Yoko 1, 2
Ophuls, Marcel 1
Orel 1, 2
Orton, Joe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Orwell, George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Osborne, Charles 1
Osborne, Godfrey 1
Osborne, John 1, 2
Osborne, Nellie Beatrice 1, 2
Oscar ceremony 1
Othello (Shakespeare) 1
Our Lady of Hal church, Camden Town 1
Oxford 1, 2
Oxford Playhouse 1
Oxford Theatre Group 1
Oxford University: AB at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ;
AB votes for Chancellor 1;
flowering of talent in theatre at 1;
funding 1;
and Hungarian uprising 1;
Larkin at 1, 2, 3 ;
and Wind in the Willows 1;
Wykehamists at 1
Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) 1, 2, 3, 4
Pagan Papers (Grahame) 1
Palace Theatre, Manchester 1
Palach, Jan 1
Palin, Michael 1, 2
Palladino, Don 1, 2
Palm Court Orchestra 1
Palmer, Geoffrey 1, 2
Palmer, J. Wood 1
Palmer, Tony 1
Pares, Richard 1, 2, 3
Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke 1
Parker-Bowles, Camilla 1
Parkinson, Lord (Cecil) 1
Pascoe, Richard 1
Passchendaele 1
Paxman, Jeremy 1
Pears, Peter 1
Peck, Gregory 1
Peel, Clarence (AB’s uncle) 1, 2, 3, 4
Peel, Evelyn (AB’s great aunt) 1
Peel, Kathleen (AB’s aunt) 1, 2, 3
Peel, Lemira (Myra; AB’s aunt) 1, 2, 3
Peel, Mary Ann (AB’s maternal grandmother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Penshurst Place, Kent 1
‘People in the Sun’ (Hopper) 1
Perfume (Suskind) 1
Perkins, Anthony 1
Philby, Kim 1, 2, 3
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh 1
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (Motion) 1
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein) 1
Pickles, Vivian 1, 2
Pickup, Ronald 1
Pieces of Eight (Cook) 1
Pinter, Harold 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pirie, Madsen 1
Pitt, William, the Younger 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Plath, Sylvia 1
Plo wright, Joan 1
P.M. (radio programme) 1
Polesden Lacey, Surrey 1
Polish Embassy, Portland Place, London 1
Popieluszko, Father Jerzy 1
Porritt, Jonathon 1
Port Meadow, Oxford 1, 2
Port Stanley, Falkland Islands 1
Porter, Roy 1, 2
Portn
oy’s Complaint (Roth) 1
Postlethwaite, Peter 1
Potocki de Montalk, Count 1 2n
Potter, Dennis 1, 2
Powell, Anthony 1, 2, 3
Powell, Enoch 1
Powell, John 1
Powell, Tristram 1
Prayer Book Society 1, 2n, 3, 4
Pre-Raphaelites 1
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, The (Goffman) 1
Price, Vincent 1, 2;
gets dose of own medicine 1
Prick Up Your Ears (screenplay) 1, 2, 3
Priestley, J. B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pritchard, John 1
Private Eye 1
Private Function, A (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Private Lives (Coward) 1, 2
Privates on Parade (Nichols) 1
Producers, The (film) 1
Professor of Desire, The (Roth) 1
Proust, Marcel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Provence 1
Providence (Resnais) 1
Psycho (film) 1
Pym, Barbara 1
Pyramids, the 1, 2
Quartz 1
Queen’s Hotel, Leeds: as superior takeaway 1
Queen’s Theatre, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 1
Question of Attribution, A (Bennett) 1
Question Time (television programme) 1
Quinton, Anthony 1
Racine, Jean 1
Raimi, Shepherd 1, 2, 3
Raine, Craig 1, 2, 3
Rake’s progress The 1
Ramses Hilton, Cairo 1, 2
Ravilious, Eric 1, 2
Reach for the Sky (film) 1
Read, Piers Paul 1
Reading, Lady 1
Reagan, Ronald 1, 2, 3
Rebecca (du Maurier) 1
Red Brigade 1
Redgrave, Lady 1, 2
Redgrave, Sir Michael 1, 2
Redwood, John 1
Rees, Goronwy: and Marxist congress of Burgess and Blunt 1
Regent’s Park, London 1, 2
Reid, Pat 1
Reith, Lord 1
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust) 1 see also À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Reuter’s 1
Revie, Don 1
Reynolds, Dorothy 1, 2, 3, 4
Rhodes House, Oxford 1
Richard, Cliff 1
Richard II (Shakespeare) 1
Richard II, King 1
Richard III (Shakespeare) 1
Richards, Stan 1
Richardson, Mu 1, 2
Richardson, Sir Ralph 1, 2, 3, 4
Richardson, Tony 1, 2
Richmond Theatre, Surrey 1
Richmond, Yorkshire 1, 2
Ring of Bright Water (Maxwell) 1
Ripon, Yorkshire 1, 2
Riverside Studios, London 1, 2
Road to Oxiana (Byron) 1, 2, 3
Roberts, Rachel 1
Roberts, William 1
Robeson, Paul 1
Rockwell, Norman 1
Rodley, Leeds 1
Roeber, James 1
Romans in Britain, The (Brenton) 1 Rome 2
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) 1, 2, 3
Roosevelt, Eleanor 1
Roper, Brian 1
Rose [de Nisco] 1, 2, 3, 4
Rose Theatre, London 1
Roseanne (television programme) 1
Rosebury, Paul 1
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Stoppard) 1
Ross, Robert 1, 2
Roth, Philip 1, 2, 3
Roth, Tim 1
Roundhay Park, Leeds 1
Roundhouse, the, London 1
Routledge, Patricia 1
Rowland, Toby 1, 2, 3, 4
Rowse, A. L. 1
Royal Academy 1, 2, 3
Royal Court Theatre, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Royal Free Hospital, London 1, 2
Royal Mail 1
Royal Malady, The (Trench) 1
Royal National Theatre, London see National Theatre, London
Royal Naval College, Greenwich 1
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (touring company) 1
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 1, 2, 3, 4
Royal Society of Literature 1, 2
Russell, Bertrand 1, 2, 3
Russia, visit to 1
Rylance, Mark 1
Rylands, George 1
Ryle, Gilbert 1, 2
Ryle, John 1
Sabawala, Mrs (admirer of Gielgud) 1
Sacks, Oliver 1, 2
Sackville-West, Vita 1, 2, 3
Saint-Denis, Michel 1
St George’s Hall, Liverpool 1, 2
St James’s, Piccadilly, London 1n, 2n
St James’s Hospital, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
St James’s Theatre, King Street, London 1
St John’s Centre, Liverpool 1, 2
St John’s College, Oxford 1
St Mary of Bethany church, Leeds 1
St Mary’s Church Hall, Paddington 1
St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 1
St Michael’s church, Headingley, Leeds 1, 2
St Pancras Cemetery, London 1, 2
St Paul’s Cathedral 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
St Paul’s church, Covent Garden, London: an acoustic nightmare 1
St Wilfred’s church, Harrogate 1
Sainte-Beuve 1
Saki (H. H. Munro) 1
Saltaire 1
Saltwood Bequest 1
Sams, Jeremy 1
Samuel, Maurice 1
Sandler, Albert 1
‘Sapper’ (Herman Cyril McNeile) 1, 2, 3
Sargent, Sir Malcolm 1
Saro-Wiwa, Ken 1
Sartre, Jean-Paul 1
SAS (Special Air Services) 1
Sassoon family 1
Savile Club, London 1
Savoy Grill, London 1
Savoy Hotel, London 1
Sawley Hall 1
Saye and Sele, Lady 1
Sayers, Dorothy L. 1, 2
Scargill, Arthur 1
Schacht, Hjalmar 1
Schafer, Kermit 1
Schlesinger, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Schofield’s, The Headrow, Leeds 1, 2
School for Scandal (Sheridan) 1
Seagull, The (Chekhov) 1
Seaton Carew 1
Second World War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Secondary Worlds (Auden) 1
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin (ed. Thwaite) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
‘Self’s the Man’ (Larkin) 1
Sellers, Peter 1
Sense of Detachment, A (Osborne) 1, 2, 3
Sereville, Genevieve 1
Serpentine Gallery, London 1
Servadio, Gaia 1
Settle, Yorkshire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Shaffer, Peter 1
Shakespeare, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Shakespeare Memorial Company 1, 2
Shakespeare Prize 1
Shanahan, Martina 1
Shane, Paul 1
Shatrov, Mikhail 1
Shaw, Don 1, 2
Shaw, George Bernard 1, 2
Sheffield football ground disaster 1
Shepherd, Miss 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Sheppard, David, Bishop of Liverpool 1
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sherrin, Ned 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Shevelove, Bert 1
Shipbourne, Kent 1
Shivas, Mark 1, 2
Shropshire Lad, A (Housman) 1
Sickert, Walter 1
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 1
Simple, Peter 1
Simpson, Mrs Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor) 1, 2
Singing Detective, The (Potter) 1
Single Spies (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Sitwell, Sir George 1
Sitwell, Osbert 1
1 Theatre 2, 3
Skipton, Yorkshire 1, 2
Slater, Ji
m 1
Smearsett 1
Smethwick by-election (1968) 1
Smith, Carol 1
Smith, Chris 1
Smith, H. Tyson 1
Smith, Maggie 1
Smith, Neville 1, 2, 3, 4
Smith, Stevie 1, 2
Sniegowska, Barbara 1
Sniegowski, Don 1, 2
Soan, Mary 1
SoHo, New York 1, 2
South Bank Show (television programme) 1, 2, 3, 4
South Riding (Holtby) 1
Southport, Lancashire 1
Spectator 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Spencer, Earl 1
Spender, Stephen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Sphinx, the 1
Sportique, Old Compton Street, London 1, 2
Springfield, Dusty 1, 2
Stagecoach (film) 1
Stalin, Joseph 1, 2
Stalker, Hugh 1
Stalker, Joan 1
Stanley, Dean 1
Stanton, Barry 1
Stapleton, Jean 1
Start the Week (radio programme) 1, 2
Steadman, Alison 1
Stedall, Jonathan 1
Steiner, George 1
Stern, J. P. 1
Stigma (Goffman) 1
Stoll Theatres 1, 2, 3, 4
Stone, Reg 1, 2
Stoppard, Tom 1, 2, 3
Storey, David 1, 2, 3
Strauss, Richard: Der Rosenkavalier 1
Stravinsky, Igor 1
Stravinsky, Vera 1
Sturrock, John 1
Sullivan, Francis L. 1
Sun 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Sun King, The (Mitford) 1
Sunday Telegraph 1, 2
Sunday Times 1, 2
Sunderland 1
Sunset Across the Bay (Bennett) 1
Suskind, Patrick 1
Suspension Bridge, Glasgow 1
Sutcliffe, Tom 1
Swann, Robert 1
Swedenborg, Emanuel 1
Swimming Pool Library, The (Hollinghurst) 1
Swinbrook church, Oxfordshire 1
Syon House, Isleworth 1
Tales of a Red Indian (Kafka) 1
Talking Heads (Bennett) 1
Tatler 1
Taxi (television series) 1
Taylor, A. J. P. 1, 2
Taylor, Elizabeth: AB’s knee sat on by 1
Tebbitt, Norman 1, 2, 3
Tennant’s auctioneers 1
Tenniel, Sir John 1
Territorial Army Drill Hall, Handel Street, Bloomsbury 1
Terry, Ellen 1
Terry, Fred 1, 2
Terry, Kate 1
Terry, Marion 1
Terry family 1, 2
Thame Park, Oxfordshire 1, 2
Thames Television 1
Thatcher, Margaret 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, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
Thatcherism 1
Theatre Royal, Brighton 1
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 1, 2
There and Back to See How Far It Is, see Day Out, A
Thesiger, Wilfred 1
‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad’ (Larkin) 1, 2
‘Thirty-Minute Theatre’ (television programme) 1
Thomas, Dylan 1, 2
Thompson, Francis 1
Thompson, Ginger 1
Thompson, Jack 1
