The bottles date from 1995 and were made for the museum by Alan Bennett.

In 1992, as a close friend of actresses Jill Bennett and Rachel Roberts, Anderson included a touching episode in his autobiographical BBC film Is That All There Is ?, with a boat trip down the River Thames ( several of their professional colleagues and friends aboard ) to scatter their ashes on the waters while musician Alan Price sang the song " Is That All There Is?

* The Old Crowd, screenplay by Alan Bennett ( LWT, 1979 )

* 1934 – Alan Bennett, English author

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

* Talking Heads ( series ), a BBC television series by Alan Bennett

* May 9 – Alan Bennett, British actor and writer

While studying music and composition there, he also performed with Alan Bennett in the Oxford Revue.

Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller.

John Bassett, Wadham College, Oxford graduate and assistant to Ponsonby, recommended jazz band mate and rising cabaret talent Dudley Moore, who in turn recommended Alan Bennett, who had been a hit at Edinburgh a few years before.

Appropriately, the comedy drama had a sellout run at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to London's West End at The Venue, in 2006, in a version starring Kevin Bishop as Moore, Tom Goodman-Hill as Cook, Fergus Craig as Alan Bennett and Colin Hoult as Jonathan Miller.

* Alan Bennett as falsetto-voiced vicar, in " Take a Pew ": " But my brother Esau is an hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

* Bennett, Alan ( 1994 ) Writing Home ISBN 0-571-17388-8

* Alan Bennett: The History Boys

Speculation began about Wiley's identity, with Tom Stoppard, Frank Muir, Alan Bennett and Noël Coward all rumoured.

Alan Bennett ( born 9 May 1934 ) is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.

Much of his work draws on his Leeds background and while he is celebrated for his acute observations of a particular type of northern speech (" It'll take more than Dairy Box to banish memories of Pearl Harbour "), the range and daring of his work is often undervalued – his television play The Old Crowd includes shots of the director and technical crew, while his stage play The Lady in the Van includes two characters named Alan Bennett.

A radio play of the same title was broadcast on 21 February 2009 on BBC Radio 4, with actress Maggie Smith reprising her role of Miss Shepherd and Alan Bennett playing himself.

Alan Bennett also adapted " The Lady in the Van " for the stage.

* Being Alan Bennett ( BBC documentary ), 2009

* Mark Lawson Talks To Alan Bennett ( BBC, extended interview ), 2009

* Alan Bennett At The BBC ( compilation )

In December 2011 Bennett returned to Lawnswood School, nearly 60 years after he left, to unveil the renamed Alan Bennett Library.

Alan wrote three very large theological textbooks, one being his first work, Summa Quoniam Homines.

In addition to his battle against moral decay, Alan wrote a work against Islam, Judaism and Christian heretics dedicated to William VIII of Montpellier.

Alan Jay Lerner was educated at Bedales School in England, The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, ( where he wrote " The Choate Marching Song ") and Harvard.

Alan Garner wrote a children's fantasy novel called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen about an enchanted teardrop bracelet.

Writer Alan Grant has stated, " The Batman I wrote for 13 years isn't gay.

According to scholar Alan Dundes, who wrote extensively on the topic, the custom originated among Romani Gypsies in Wales ( Welsh Kale Gypsies ) and England ( English Romanichal Gypsies ).

Following a 1 – 0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February 2011, described by Alan Smith as " a quite brilliant display in terms of discipline and spirit " and a " defensive masterplan " by David Pleat, Henry Winter wrote, " it can only be a matter of time before he is confirmed as long-term manager ".

In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal wrote a nonsensical article entitled " Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ".

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

In 1978, around the same time Roy Trubshaw wrote MUD, Alan E. Klietz wrote a game called Milieu using Multi-Pascal on a CDC Cyber 6600 series mainframe which was operated by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.

John Alan Simon wrote, produced and directed a film adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth.

He was quiet and self-effacing, remarkably polite and obliging — a product, biographer Alan Clayson wrote, of his Southern upbringing.

Astronauts Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space, and Deke Slayton later wrote of how the sight of Sputnik I passing overhead inspired them to their new careers.

Alan Greenspan wrote that the bank failures of the 1930s were sparked by Great Britain dropping the gold standard in 1931.

In 1966 Alan Greenspan wrote " Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

The American historians ' Williamson Murray and Alan Millet wrote about Raeder's thinking about Norway: "... since fall 1939, Admiral Raeder had advocated an aggressive policy toward Scandinavia to protect ore shipments and to establish naval bases in the area.

Alan S. Brown and Chris Logan wrote in The Psychology of The Simpsons that Grampa has the least amount of " power " in the Simpson family, and that he is treated as little more than a child and is often ignored.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

British gardening personality Alan Titchmarsh wrote in 2003: " Chatsworth's greatest strength is that its owners have refused to let the garden rest on its Victorian laurels.

* In 2007, David Greig wrote an adaptation of The Bacchae for the National Theatre of Scotland starring Alan Cumming as Dionysus, with ten soul-singing followers in place of the traditional Greek chorus.

The British philosopher Alan Watts wrote extensively about this subject.

In five of the mystery novels she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant.