Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of ten talks. He relives family crises, early pieties and the last of a tradition of musical evenings round the piano. All of these tales are told with wry observation and ironic understatement.
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Alan Bennett is a renowned playwright and essayist, a succession of whose plays have been staged at the Royal National Theatre and whose screenplay for The Madness of King George was nominated for an Academy Award. He made his first stage appearance with Beyond the Fringe and his latest play was The Lady in the Van with Maggie Smith. Episodes from his award-winning Talking Heads series have been shown on PBS. His first novel, The Clothes They Stood Up In, was published in 2000. He lives in London.
