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Alan Bennett - The History Boys

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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The Importance of Reading Books

It always seemed to me that I had some very lucky chances really. My supervisor was a great historian called Bruce MacFarlane who was a medieval historian. He gave me pupils from modeling and sent them to me because he helped out with the moneyreally. When did I start feeling it really mattered? I think probably long after I left university really.I never finished a book really because you had so much to do. I just found I never had a letter to read all of a book when I wanted to do. The only book I ever read like that and did know inside out was a book by another great historian Richard Pears called George III and the Politicians. And I which were

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