Alan Bennett, Untold Stories

Part of "Untold Stories", a collection of prose by Allen Bennett, this work contains two reminiscences from Bennett's life and an essay on the class system. It describes an incident in Italy when he was mugged, and found himself trying to give a statement to the police in bad Italian.

Alan Bennett's television series "Talking Heads" has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, including "Forty Years On", "The Lady in the Van", "The Madness of George III" (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay "The Madness of King George") and an adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows. "The History Boys" won the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, the South Bank Award and six Tony Awards.