Alan Bennett

If you're walking into a bookstore and you wanna get somebody a gift, just ask the bookseller.

Tell them, like, "She's busy." Like, I would give anybody on planet Earth The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.

It's, like, less than 100 pages.

You can read it in, like, 45 minutes.

And I've just had to look it up because I couldn't remember the whole thing.

But it makes me think of that quote from... a play that you've been in which i wasn't and i was gutted that i couldn't be the history boys um the quote by uh the history boys is a play written by alan bennett and in the play it's about these um it's a group of like seven uh grammar school lads isn't it who are trying to take exams to get into university um and about the lessons they learn from their english teacher And they're English teachers called Mr. Hector.

And there's a film he's played by Richard Griffiths, who also played him in the play, which is the guy that played Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter films.

And there's a line in it.

And it's something that I've experienced.

So that chapter is why we've kind of focused on it a lot, because it's relevant to us.

It's as if a hand has come out and taken yours, as Alan Bennett says.

And I think that's what this game is good at.

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Alan Bennett.

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I know I do love Alan Bennett.

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and you know even among them it's like you're not going to see a lot of people going to play it's just it's just not a cultural thing and it really it used to be you know that's how we got great great uh playwrights like arthur miller yeah by the way did i tell you that that's who i named arthur after arthur miller

no i didn't know that oh that's great

yeah my My sonny boy, Arthur, he's five now.

Yeah.

This is what Alan Bennett talks about a lot.

It's very much.

I prefer that.

There's a slight...

What's his name? Oh, Alan Bennett.

Alan Bennett, yeah.

Creature comfort says.

It's a strange one.