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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett attended Leeds Modern School , learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, and gained a place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. However, having spent time in Cambridge during national service, and partly wishing to follow the object of his unrequited love, he decided to apply for a scholarship at Oxford University. Bennett was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford from which he graduated with a degree in history. While at Oxford he performed comedy with a number of eventually successful actors in the Oxford Revue.

In 1960, Bennett achieved instant fame by appearing at the Edinburgh Festival in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, which later continued in London and NYC. Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On was produced in 1968. Many television, stage and radio plays followed, along with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non–fictional prose and broadcasting, and many appearances as an actor.