A critic once described Alan Bennett as 'England's cultural teddy bear'. As his new play, People, prepares to open in London, Michael Billington argues that he is a more complicated " and prickly " writer than his cosy reputation suggestsI first heard the name of Alan Bennett at an Oxford dining table in the late 1950s. I lived in an ecumenical Unitarian college, and one of my fellow-boarders told me he had tuto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AM on November 1, 2015