AUDIO: Alan Bennett: Diary for 2022
Alan Bennett reads his 2022 diary (with some extra bits), in which he buys his dad a violin, goes to Venice with a goat, and tries to make the queen laugh.
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What a wonderfully brilliant man! The mention of Barry Cryer was precious! I love that he has another super power with his new hearing aids!
Wonderful stuff. I'm so pleased to listen to Bennett again. He brings the world back into focus with his wit and nostalgia. A good Leeds Loiner of the old school. Sadly very rare nowadays.
Not easy to get LRB in maritime 🇨🇦.look forward to January,s Diaries. Keep on, keeping on, Mr. Bennett. We need you!
I look forward to this every January. Its wonderful to get this insight in to Bennett's life who mostly leads a life away from the limelight.
Thank you Mr B for a lovely glimpse into your life. As sharp and brilliant as ever. Hoping for many more.
I absolutely love 'The Uncommon Reader' - recommending it, re-reading it and now, unable to read, listening to the matchless Bennett's audio version. Like Gallico's 'Snow Goose' a book giving endless pleasure. Thank you Alan Bennett for your readings.
Wondefful. Thank you.
Always looking forward to the most recent instalments of Mr. Bennnett's diaries. Grateful for the upload!
I like the by-play with the other person, and the return to the text. Really nice moments. Happy New Year.
I love this annual treat! Thank you so much. Always make me smile & gives me something to think about.
@emmadundas8504
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Such a treat when it appears I listen to Alan diaries to get to sleep it usually takes me 18 months to hear a full diary but I never tire of the first soothing 15 mins - this year I’m choosing to fully listen first before my bedtime listen
@clairegardner6211
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@@emmadundas8504 me too! Bennett at Bedtime every night here. I’ve tried lots of different sounds and stories over the years, but he is my tried and trusted and I don’t listen to anyone else now. I love him!
Love the Venice description. And all the understated ironies, in casual or spiked observation - - "By the time I'd got round to Liz Truss, she'd gone" - - ambling over the cobbles for the next half-hour. There's real art to inhabiting sentences in the seemingly effortless way AB does. 6:35 "Firbank it was rather than Wilde." Ohh how AB should have had his own chapter in 'Camp In Literature'!
Its become a yearly tradition of mine, your missive and a long bath. Sad to see the bath shorter this year. But still glad to hear your voice.
Many thanks for this. I attended one of the first performances of A Question of Attribution at the National and remember the excitement in the audience when Prunella Scales entered the stage.
Another diary to be enjoyed and listened to multiple times in the coming months. Agree with Mr Bennett that CJ Sansom's Shardlake series of Tudor detective novels more enjoyable than Mantel's Wolf Hall. Although quite what Disney+'s proposed tv series will be like one wonders.
Will there ever be another ?..Of course not . Truly the mould was broken in his case . Long may he reign as the genius of our time .
Love the aside about beyond the fringe and the queen being in the audience .
Wonderful, I too much prefered the Shardlake stories.
No sign of his 2023 diary? Hope Mr Bennett is ok😢
Thank you Mr. Bennett. Sending much admiration for you and your work from NYC. A healthy New Year to you and Rupert-- with many more diaries to come. 🕊️