Musing with typically downbeat Yorkshire wit on what it is like to be a national treasure, Alan Bennett once said: “If you live to be 90 in England and can still eat a boiled egg they think you ...
Bennett is 82 now, and lives much of the time in NW1 – the very street once home to the Lady in the Van, who parked in his front garden, in a neighbourhood memorialised in the Mark Boxer comic strip, ...