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Alan Bennett at 80: everything but a national treasure by Mark Lawson

The writer remains nationally visible and professionally treasured, just don't be fooled into using the obvious label B is for Betty's, S is for splother ... An A-Z of Alan BennettAlan Bennett has reason to fear birthdays. In Untold Stories one of his two best-selling volumes of memoirs and diaries he described spending his 58th in an Italian clinic after a violent mugging while on holiday.Characteristically of Ben…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19AM on May 9, 2014

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