With Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, Alan Bennett joins a tradition " including Dario Fo and David Hare " of writers putting versions of themselves into the frayAn American TV viewer once wrote to a Hollywood trade publication to ask if the hero of the TV science fiction series Quantum Leap, Sam Beckett, was named after the author of Waiting for Godot. After checking with the studio, the paper was able to inform the corres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AM on February 11, 2013