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Alan Bennett on why he's "doomed to amiability"
"Even if I stabbed Judi Dench with a pitchfork, I'd still be a teddy bear," says the writer. He talks to Front Row's Kirsty Lang about his public persona and the topicality of his new play Allelujah! which is set in a geriatric ward of a Yorkshire hospital.
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More clips from Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner, Diversity in children's fiction, Yves Klein at Blenheim Place
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What’s behind the lack of diversity in children's fiction?
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Adam Buxton on the unsettling rise of AI biographies
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Samantha Harvey wins the Booker Prize 2024 for Orbital
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Charlotte Woods
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Yael van der Wouden
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