Alan Bennett contemplates losing friends and the Queen in 2022 diary
The playwright details Barry Cryer's comedic phone calls and reveals what her majesty said to Prunella Scales in his annual journal for London Review of Books Alan Bennett's 2022 diary, published in the London Review of Books, records the 88-year-old playwright contemplating old age, feeling bored by Covid precautions, chronicling an ever-changing carousel of UK prime ministers and remembering those we lost this year…