Looking back to 2007 - Alan is offered a role in Fanny Hill, and reflects on his public image as “kindly, cosy and essentially harmless".

More unique observations, recollections and reminiscences as author, playwright and author Alan Bennett reads extracts from the third collection of his diaries.

Covering the years 2005 to 2014, it proved to be a packed decade.

Abridged and produced by Gordon House.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016. Show less