Tag Archives: Alan Bennett

On Coronation Street

A moment of closed-book recall. Possibly 2007, Roy Cropper (David Neilson) is on the payphone in his café, Roy’s Rolls. He complains, to whoever’s passing – Hayley most likely – that he’s been put on hold. ‘Vivaldi’s Four Seasons,’ he … Continue reading

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Dickens – An Audacious Concentration

A few weeks ago I had a brief, even by tweeting standards, exchange with a writer who’d tabled the view that were Charles Dickens alive and creating today, his output would not be the soaps and sitcoms some, I guess, … Continue reading

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