Barbara Windsor, Icon, National Treasure, and one of the finest Principal Boys to ever rub the magic lamp celebrates an astonishing Sixty Years in show business in the very near future. Michael Mills and Tom Sloan, from BBC Comedy and Light Entertainment, were visiting the ruins of Pompeii. Since Mills had recently seen Frankie Howerd in the play A Funny. Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1968 BBC1 11.15am Apollo report 11.20am Jackanory Ted Ray tells a traditional story for Christmas Eve called The Little Juggler 11.35am The Christmas Story. A production by the Theatre Royal, Bath, of The Madness Of George III, in 2011. Photograph: Robert Day/Theatre Royal I visit on the day Jeremy Corbyn gives his first speech as Labour leader to the party conference; I ask. Thursday September 15, Antique & Estate Auction. NW Estates featuring Mid Century, Knoll, Designer Quality Contemporary Furnishings, Paintings, Sterling, Crystal, Limoges, Coins, Chinese & Asian Ceramics, Antique Dolls. In February 1934 the BBC's TV experiments were moved up the road to a larger studio in 16 Portland Place where the broadcasts continued. Studio BB was then used by Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra. Latest breaking news, including politics, crime and celebrity. Find stories, updates and expert opinion. About 95% of these are lost. I'll be indicating which ones we've found as time permits. Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 13 Home 6.5.1945 5.8.1945 Frank Partington/Reginald Tate/Barbara Couper/Dulcie Gray Fools' Paradise John. He still has that schoolboy mop of blond hair, and were it not for a little stiffness as he rises from his chair, and deep veins on his hands, you would take him for a much younger man. We are talking in his front room in Primrose Hill in London. His partner of 2. Rupert Thomas, is the editor of the World Of Interiors magazine and it shows . They are also useful decrypters of taste, and this famous literary diarist is clearly a connoisseur of other literary diarists. His new film, The Lady In The Van, is about the extraordinary figure of Miss Shepherd, who for 1. Camden Town. Bennett himself is played by Alex Jennings, who is seen at various points stabbing ineffectually with two fingers at a manual typewriter. This, I assume, is a little cruel. The action of the film takes place in the 1. I assume that he has long since moved on into the digital world. There was nothing on it. They are waiting, you see, for the next note. As we speak, a memory about Bennett surfaces, something that Thomas told me when, nearly 2. I worked together on the World Of Interiors. Is it really true, I ask, that you keep your work- in- progress in the fridge for safekeeping? But then a friend in New York said, that. His old manuscripts (now mostly in the Bodleian Library in Oxford) are stained, he says, by various unnamed drips and spillages: . Assembled into a single narrative, they were first published in the LRB after Miss Shepherd. Later he turned the story into a stage play, starring Maggie Smith, and now comes the film, directed by Nicholas Hytner, also starring Smith. Jennings does a lovely version of the writer, a role he first took in 2. Bennett play, Cocktail Sticks, at the National Theatre. In the film the author is trapped between the demands of two elderly women: his mother, declining up in Yorkshire, and Miss Shepherd, whose unruly presence tests the liberal principles of the new generation of artists, television people and journalists who, Bennett among them, had moved into Camden Town and done up the big old Victorian villas there (the . The van had been parked at various points along the road, and at length . There were so many incidents when she was not actually physically roughed up, but people banged on the side of the van, hoping to get her out and waving her stick, that I always had one eye on her and it stopped me working. Bringing her into the drive was a way of getting rid of that and enabling me to find a way to work. In retrospect, it might seem as though it was humanitarian, but the larger part was pure selfishness. Then there was the other one, which came out of the nest too soon and had to be fed by the robin. I was writing overlooking the garden and it was exactly as it was with Miss Shepherd: half my eye was on this bird because there were jays about, and seagulls. If I could have taken the bird inside, I would, not because of the bird but because of me. Photograph: Antony Crolla. In the film, there are two Alan Bennetts. One sits at his desk, pen poised, and issues barbed remarks to the other Bennett, who flutters about timidly, not knowing quite what to do. The Bennett at the desk knows, on some level, that Miss Shepherd may well end up providing him with . This sense of doubleness runs through Bennett. For example this, from an 8. Harrogate: . Their Yorkshire childhoods were similar but Harty had, according to Bennett. Photograph: Robert Day/Theatre Royal. I visit on the day Jeremy Corbyn gives his first speech as Labour leader to the party conference; I ask Bennett if he caught any of it. No, but he is a strong supporter. The notion that they were wanting to choose somebody who would win the election when we are three, four years away from one, regardless of what half the nation wants . He and Thomas use the east coast mainline regularly to visit their house in Yorkshire; the line was renationalised after the financial crisis in 2. No good arguments have been advanced for it. And obviously the National Health and so forth: everything Corbyn. The other candidates had stopped talking about these things. That stems originally from Mrs Thatcher: she did believe that Labour was wicked. Those who pay for it know it. Those who have to sacrifice in order to purchase it know it. And those who receive it know it, or should. One has only had to stand still to become a radical. Everybody knows how she speaks, what her circumstances are, so you. The glamorising of her that has happened has nothing to do with anything, really . They did it twice and the first time I slightly messed it up . And then the next night I did it properly and it was all right, but oh, I wouldn. And when I came off that first time, Helen Mirren said, . Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex Shutterstock. I wonder what he makes of the fuss surrounding Corbyn. The lies on the front page of the Mail are so vulgar and glaring. Occasionally people say they like my work and then I see they have a copy of the Mail, and you think, . The notion that you are required to sing the national anthem in order to prove your patriotism, and if you don. He was sent to train with an infantry platoon in Pontefract that was going to be sent to the war in Korea; not unreasonably, he didn. He worried because he had made the mistake of being an extremely good shot . Writers Michael Frayn and Dennis Potter did it, as did the late John Drummond, controller of the BBC Proms in the 9. Bennett applied and got on. They would never have asked me to be a spy . The course, though, was . He had never been away from home before (he was raised in Leeds, except for a brief period when his parents moved to Guildford). And there he was, in Cambridge, and with a bit of money, too. Having already been offered a place to study at the university the following year, he realised that other people on the Russian course had won scholarships . Neglecting his Russian in favour of preparing for the scholarship exam (in history), he ended up . It was the mindless, repetitive and demeaning nature of that work that put . I was quite conservative and Christian and rather priggish when I went into the army. That began to go, I hope. I can say I love England. That is true of me, I think. Burgess and Blunt wanted a kind of moral solitude, which is a very different thing. Being sceptical about patriotism is a part of patriotism . Demonstrations of patriotism always make me uncomfortable, but I don. It makes you sound so pompous if you put it like that. Photograph: Alastair Muir/Rex Shutterstock. While Bennett. Despite the sense of familiarity that comes from having watched his television plays of the 7. Or rather, he is easily mistaken: those wry Yorkshire tones and an art that tends to dwell on matters domestic and provincial mean he is frequently regarded as rather cosy . And then as you get older it just ceases to matter. The times changed and then.. Rupert and I have been together for 2. People talk about coming out to their parents, and I just didn. In my case, coming out about what? Nothing was happening . She overlapped with Rupert and so it ended, and then she came to Yorkshire and lived next door. To begin with, not surprisingly, she didn. At the time of the relationship he enjoyed the sense of wrongfooting people: . It seems to me that they are more forgiving of one another. The director approached him in 1. The Wind In The Willows for the National Theatre, then run by Richard Eyre. Their first meeting was in a restaurant in Primrose Hill, and Bennett spent much of the dinner explaining the area to him. The intensely contained Hytner never owned up to living streets away himself. Professionally, Hytner . Both those things make you want to go on with it . Innes was exactly what was good about the BBC. You told him what you wanted to do, and he would arrange things without letting you know there was any problem at all. The other producer like that, in a different way, was Ned Sherrin: he understood about giving you space and not letting you know there was a row on. Photograph: Antony Crolla. He watches telly: he enjoyed the recent adaptations of Cider With Rosie and An Inspector Calls. The latter is one of two JB Priestley plays he would like to have written himself, he says, the other being When We Are Married. He loves the comedy of Stewart Lee, and the geeky sitcom The Big Bang Theory, and the . He got into trouble a few years back when he said in an interview that he didn. But he is also reading some new British fiction . Bennett is more of a Larkin than a Hughes man, finding Hughes. He obviously thought I was a bit showbiz and corrupt. The whole thing was just so . Larkin is about things I recognise. I see that poems like . Things are somewhat becalmed as Hytner, having left the National, has not yet started up his new venture, a London theatre near Tower Bridge, planned to open in 2. Sources of domestic tension, meantime, are few. If we were ever to split up it would be about that, really. You tell people that you.
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