We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

The work has also been publiAlan Bennettd in book form. Bennett wrote the play Enjoy in 1980. R.

He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He gave up academia and turned to writing full-time his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968.