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Diaries are like conversation...even if the conversation is with oneself. Alan Bennett. The eighties were a busy time for Alan Bennett. His insider's ear on the arts world Thora Hird and Coral Browne, Denholm Elliot and Maggie Smith is eccentric and unmissable. But Bennett's canvas also includes his mother, a writer's tour of Russia, life in New York and Camden, filming in Egypt, the Falklands War, Mrs Thatcher and Yorkshire. Bennett's eye view of the decade confirms him as one of life's great observers clear eyed, compassionate and funny.
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