USSR 166, 185, 325, 329, 434
Vaisey, David 81, 165, 331–2, 371–2
Van Gogh, Vincent 208–9, 300
Vanity Fair 209
Vatican Museum, Rome 274–5
Vaughan Williams, Ursula 156
VE/VJ Day 364, 365
Vernon, Sir Henry 318
Versailles 130
View from the Foothills, A (Mullin) 223–4
Villandry, London 51, 52
Virgin Queen, The (Hibbert) 172
Virgin trains 174–5, 343, 359
Vogue 415
Wagenknecht, Lynn 4, 31, 57, 62, 71, 83, 113–14, 163, 188, 191, 192, 202, 297, 371
Waiting for Godot (Beckett) 452
Wales 13, 225, 253, 271–2, 374
Walliams, David 67
Walpole St Peter, Norfolk 196–7
War Horse (Morpurgo) 244–5
Warham, Norfolk 285
Warner, Roger 205–6
Warrington, Don 322
Waterhouse, Keith 176, 499, 500
Waterman, Fanny 166, 218, 367
Waterperry, Oxfordshire 38, 62
Watford/Watford Grammar Schools 408, 413, 417
Waugh, Evelyn 13, 129–30, 161, 267, 382, 464
Weeton, near Leeds 16–17
Weissberger, Arnold 122, 243
Welch, Denton 15, 109
Wendover, Buckinghamshire 61
Wensleydale, North Yorkshire 60, 188–9
Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire 459
West, Timothy 88, 138
West Yorkshire (Glossop) 273–4
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds 507
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 149–50
Westminster Abbey 87–9, 226–7, 329, 336, 366, 465
Weston, West Yorkshire 70
whale, stranded in the Thames 48
Wharfedale 330, 353
Wheatfield Church, near Adwell, Oxford-shire 37, 164
Wheeler-Booth, Michael 283, 494
Whitsun Weddings, The (Larkin) ix
Wigg, James 281, 283
Wight, Stephen 196
Wilcote, William 333
William the Silent (Wedgwood) 389
Williams, John 49
Williams, Rowan 137, 328
Williams, Simon 190
Williamson, Nicol 166–7
Wilmers, Mary-Kay 296, 309, 325
Wilson, Andrew 118, 225, 235
Wilson, Angus 387
Wilson, Harold 123, 166–7, 454
Wilson, Mary 454
Wilson, Richard 347–8
Wilton, Penelope 80, 187, 317, 345, 361
Winchester Cathedral 401
Wind in the Willows, The (Graham) 234
Wind in the Willows, The (Graham, adapted Bennett) 507–8, 513, 514, 517
Windsor Castle 153
Winnie the Pooh (Milne, narrated Bennett) 96
Wiveton, Norfolk 308
Wolf Hall (Mantel) 214–15, 347
Wolfenden, Jeremy 39–42, 43, 474
Wood, Dinah (AB’s editor at Faber) 28, 301, 309, 337, 358, 362–3, 467
Wood Lane, Leeds: Flat 1, No. 8 home of the Bennett family 237, 353
Wood, Wilfrid 362–3
Woodham-Smith, Cecil 388
Woolf, Virginia 16, 232, 337, 379, 448
World at One, The (radio programme) 68, 348–9
World of Interiors 227, 297
Wortley, Leeds 250, 449, 699
Wright, Helena 493
Writing Home (Bennett) 28, 192, 340, 445
Written Rock quarry, Brampton 47
Wyndham, Francis 235
Yeoman’s greengrocer 272
York 114, 178, 187–8, 294–5
York and Lancaster Regiment 24, 472
see also Pontefract Barracks
York Minster 188
Yorke Arms, Ramsgill 205
Yorkshire Evening Post 67, 176, 180, 700–1
Yorkshire Post 176
Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra 212–13, 370
Yorkshire Tea: offer to model AB’s face in cake declined 330–1
Young, Rosamund 73
Yoxford, Suffolk 249, 304
ALSO BY MARY BEARD
Untold Stories
The inimitable Alan Bennett’s diaries from 1996–2004.
ISBN 978 0 57122 831 7
eISBN 978 0 57124 689 2
A Life Like Other People’s
A poignant family memoir offering a portrait of Bennett’s parents’ marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra.
ISBN 978 0 57125 485 9
eISBN 978 0 57125 492 7
The Lady in the Van
Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord.
ISBN 978 1 78125 540 7
eISBN 978 1 84765 357 4
The Uncommon Reader
Roy Sorensen
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis?
ISBN 978 1 84668 133 2
eISBN 978 1 84765 338 3
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