Keeping On Keeping On

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Alan Bennett - Keeping On Keeping On: 2009

Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett

2009

Alan Bennett - Keeping On Keeping On

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Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diaries.

Alan Bennett’s diaries. The writer gifts works to the Bodleian Library and hunts for a sound effect for WH Auden breaking wind.

Looking back to 2009 - Alan presents writings to the Bodleian Library and describes the long process of finding a sound effect for WH Auden breaking wind.

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.

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