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Enough Said

By: Alan Bennett
Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Alex Jennings
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 20 September. Have a notion for a radio series - Awkward Conversations.

Enough Said is Alan Bennett's fourth collection of diaries and prose. Covering the turbulent years 2016 to 2024, the diaries take us through lockdown, Brexit, the reign of Johnson, the rise of Trump and the death of the Queen. In between, we take the train with him back and forth to Yorkshire, celebrate the herons, the newts and the street fairs, and lament the scarcity of curlews, the closure of the last local bank and the deteriorating welfare state. There is the premiere of Allelujah!, the revived Talking Heads, the publication of two Sunday Times bestsellers and the filming of The Choral.

2024 is the year that Alan turns ninety; he reflects on old age and the importance of luck. He looks back to childhood and recalls an idyllic wartime month as an evacuee. A book for the bedside, this is poignant, funny, contemplative Alan Bennett, as he records life both personal and political in his most distinct of voices.©2026 Alan Bennett (P)2026 Profile Books Limited Art & Literature Authors Diaries & Journals Literary History & Criticism Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence Funny
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A poignant and thoughtful memoir that soothed my troubled mind in these unsettled times. It was just like a warm cashmere blanket, enveloping me and keeping me safe and warm.

So Comfortable.

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I was incredibly disappointed to find that Alan Bennet is not reading this. And I have realised how much his voice is crucial to my enjoyment of his diaries. Alex Jennings gets the cadence right but he doesn’t get Yorkshire vowels and his pronunciation particularly of the correct short ‘a’ is mostly lacking. After a while it screamed at me, and I heard myself shouting it’s “basket not barsket” !
The diaries are good of course.

Alan Bennet isn’t reading it

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I don’t think I’ve ever been as sad to finish a book. Everything about it a delight.

Beautiful

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Couldn’t stop listening
Heard a lot previously but not a cause for concern
Reassuringly nostalgic

Like having Alan Bennett in room

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I loved every chapter , there wasn’t a dull moment . I looked forward this coming out and wasn’t disappointed. I didn’t want it to end .
Alex Jennings , never a bad performance , a delight .

The joy of the diary

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