If you have concerns about how we have used your personal information, you also have the right to complain to a privacy regulator. He likes best spaces such as Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, where art is woven into the textures of a domestic interior. His first work for television was a sketch show, On the Margin, and he also wrote the television series Fortunes of War.

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Giving the manuscripts to Bodley - it sounds rather pious - is a kind of small recompense for what I was given. Hardback book, 2nd printing/impression of the first edition, SIGNED by Alan Bennett on the title page, p.Mr Parr doesn’t think it’s relevant either, but standing on his doorstep as we drive away he may well be thinking that this is an odd family that censors its own history and it’s that that’s relevant.

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We cared, of course, but we still had lives to lead: Dad was retired – he had all the time in the world to care.

Now it has, I thought, and as the remnants of our group stood awkwardly outside the church, reflected that he was the first person of our generation to have died. A few years after they moved I wrote a television play, Sunset across the Bay, in which a retired couple not unlike my parents leave Leeds to go and live in Morecambe.

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Many television, stage and radio plays followed, with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose, and broadcasting and many appearances as an actor.I went to the funeral at St Michael’s, Headingley, the church where in our teens we had both been enthusiastic worshippers.