Type: Literary Reading
Cast: Alan Bennett
Location: Trafalgar Square, London
Year: 2011

Alan Bennett entertains with this darkly humorous reading from his book that considers the hospice care which his mother experienced at the end of her life. Personal anecdote and a wry look at the way we regard the elderly has created great writing which he reads out loud with pzazz. This is the man who turned down the offer of a British knighthood because he sees himself as a commoner. He explained, "I'm all in favor of free expression, provided it's kept rigidly under control."