Keeping On Keeping On

  Mary Rose (ship) 304

  Mason, A. E. W. 251–2

  Massey, Anna 8, 154, 252

  Matcham, Frank 439

  Maugham, W. Somerset 198

  Mayne, Michael 87–9, 207, 366

  Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Bennett) 379, 390

  Mechanics’ Institute, Leeds 135–6

  Medici Quartet 85, 439, 440

  Melia, Joe 293

  Mells, Somerset, church at 257

  Mendelson, Edward 325

  Menwith Hill, RAF 110–11

  Methley Church, near Leeds 24–5, 478–9

  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 125–6, 348

  MI5 76, 165–6

  Michelangelo 65–6, 275, 519

  Last Judgement 208

  Midgley, John (antique shop owner) 9–10

  Midsomer Murders (television programme) 70, 176, 220

  Miliband, David 213, 284

  Miller, Arthur 9

  Miller, Jonathan 27, 38, 76, 96, 150–1, 296, 297, 307, 321, 334, 415

  Miller, Karl 255, 306–7, 341

  Milne, A. A. 234

  Mitford, Nancy 353, 462

  Monteith, Charles 270

  Monty Python 5–6

  Moore, Charles 13, 367

  Moore, Dudley 5, 38, 64, 190, 258, 292, 311, 415, 428

  Moore, Henry 24–5, 103, 191, 478–9, 480

  Moore, Stephen Campbell 408–9, 414

  Morecambe, Lancashire 211, 232–3, 242, 699

  Morgan, Richard Lloyd 328, 395

  Morley, Lewis 195

  Morris, Tom 244–5

  Morrissey 38, 102, 228

  Moscow 166, 185, 329, 434

  Mosley, Charlotte 203, 225

  Mount Grace, Yorkshire 219, 338

  Mullin, Chris 223–4

  Murdoch, Rupert 71, 210, 258, 273

  Murray, Craig 17

  Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna 98

  My Fair Lady (musical) 453

  Myra, Aunty see Peel, Lemira

  Mystery and Manners (O’Connor) 190, 445, 446

  Nabucco (Verdi) 486–7

  Nash, John 162

  Nash, Paul 153

  National Gallery 10, 84, 156, 163–4, 266, 270, 305, 346, 348, 363, 465, 477

  National Health Service (NHS) 136, 172, 219, 222, 272, 282–3, 312, 369

  National Parks 73, 75

  National Portrait Gallery (NPG) 346

  National Service 39–41, 86–7, 239, 332, 339, 363, 397–8, 471–4

  National Theatre xii, 18, 48, 90, 115–16, 192, 216, 221, 242, 291, 304, 505–9

  Cottesloe stage 505

  fiftieth anniversary of, AB’s essay on 505–9

  Habit of Art at 185, 190, 194, 195, 200, 431, 459

  History Boys at 18, 407

  Lyttelton stage 506, 507, 509

  Nicholas Hytner and 327, 351, 372, 509, 513–14, 517

  Olivier stage 316–17, 327, 505, 506, 514

  People at 314, 467

  Platform evenings 240, 327, 459, 509

  National Trust 12, 52, 91, 92, 219, 240, 257–8, 349, 457–8, 459, 460–1, 466, 481, 509

  Nature Cure (Mabey) 36–7

  Naughtie, James 278, 281

  Naval and Military Club, St James’s Square 234

  New York 30, 31, 38, 54–8, 62–3, 71, 77, 106, 125–7, 134, 157, 165, 187, 190–2, 206–7, 209–10, 212, 292, 302, 317, 341, 348, 368, 370–2, 453

  New York Public Library 370, 371–2

  New York Review of Books (NYRB) 325

  New York Times 58, 210

  New Yorker (magazine) 148

  Newsnight 26, 247–8, 391

  Nichols, Beverley 212

  Nicholson, William 11

  Nickolds, Andrew 320

  Nicolson, Adam 359

  Nicolson, Ben 202

  Nicolson, Nigel 359

  Nidderdale, North Yorkshire 110, 111, 112, 188, 324

  9/11 terrorist attacks 61, 420

  Norfolk 36, 158–60, 284, 466–7

  Normington, John 115–16

  Norton, Graham 113

  Nostell Priory 479

  Not Only But Also (television programme) 38

  Not So Much a Programme (television programme) 78, 122, 369

  Novello, Ivor 274, 369

  Obama, Barack 172

  Observer 195, 509

  Occupy London 263–4

  O’Connor, Flannery 190, 242, 445, 446

  Odeon, Leicester Square 367–8

  Odeon restaurant, New York 62, 412

  Old Country, The (Bennett) 242, 264, 379, 389, 433–4

  Old Parsonage, Oxford 351

  Olivier, Lawrence 105, 452, 453

  Olivier Theatre, London 316–17, 327, 505, 506, 514

  On the Margin 68

  Opera North 452, 485

  Orlando (Woolf) 16

  Orton, Joe 173–4, 379

  Osborne, George 307–8, 319, 361

  Osborne, John 194, 400, 452, 507

  Otley Road, Leeds: No. 92A home of the Bennett family 236–7, 243–4, 272, 441

  Ovenden, Richard 141, 165, 351

  ‘Over the Rainbow’ (Arlen/Harburg) 315

  Oxford 39, 75, 333, 386–7, 411

  Oxford Literary Festival 351

  Oxford University 41, 42, 43–4, 45–6, 59, 149, 218, 241–2, 303, 314, 352, 365, 398, 425–6, 434, 450–1

  AB’s time at 42, 59, 384–5

  in AB’s works 411, 418

  Bodleian Library 192–3, 334, 518

  Holywell Music Room 331–2

  recognition of AB by 81–2, 141, 164–5

  see also specific colleges/buildings

  Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome 276–7

  Palin, Michael 5–6, 20, 189–90, 204

  Palmer, Simon 481

  Palmer, Tony 428

  Palmers, Parkway 68–9

  Pantheon, Rome 83

  Paris 297–8, 352, 353, 480

  Parish Churches (Collins guide book) 159

  Park, Reg 129

  Parker, Harry 373–4

  Parkway, Camden 29, 104, 137, 340, 366–7

  Peace, David 175–6

  Pears, Peter 63–4, 308, 427, 428

  Peel, Clarence Eastwood (AB’s uncle) 340

  Peel, Eveline (AB’s aunt) 227, 369

  Peel family 274

  Peel, Kathleen Elizabeth see Roach, Kathleen

  Peel, Lemira (Myra; AB’s aunt) 35, 315, 699

  Peel, Mary Ann (AB’s maternal grandmother) 451–2, 699–700

  Peel, Stan (Aunty Myra’s husband) 92–3

  Peel, William (AB’s maternal grandfather) 271, 700

  Penarth, Wales 253

  People (Bennett) xii, 16, 66, 91, 293–4, 298, 314, 338, 457–67, 481, 509, 514

  Pepys, Samuel 293

  Percy, Lindis 110

  Perry, Grayson 151, 280

  Petherbridge, Edward 64, 76

  Pevsner, Nikolaus 70, 205, 261, 273

  Philby, Kim 185–6, 329

  Philip II 163–4

  Pilgrim’s Progress (Vaughan Williams) 485–6

  Pinocchio (Collodi) 157

  Piper, John 202, 229, 271, 273

  Places In Between, The (Stewart) 350, 351

  Plath, Sylvia 42, 203, 279

  Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey 207

  Pontefract Barracks 24, 339, 472, 473

  Pope Benedict XVI 76–7

  Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth) 353

  Posner, Dr 331, 333

  Potter, Dennis 449

  Poulett monument, Somerset 261–2

  Powell, Anthony 112, 154, 261, 268–9, 389

  Powell, Archie 102, 198, 355, 414

  Powell, Tristram 297, 313, 361, 518

  Prichard, Mari 430

  Prick Up Your Ears (film) 379

  Priestley, J. B. 366, 404

  Primrose Hill, London x–xi, 21–2, 147, 183, 213, 224, 279, 284, 285–6, 293, 303–4, 367

  Primrose Hill Community Library 324

  Prince
of Wales Theatre 20

  Princeton University 190–1

  Private Function, A (film) 115, 189–90, 340

  Private Passions (radio programme) xiii, 369–70

  probation service 317

  Proust, Marcel 103, 141, 149, 258, 382

  Quainton, Buckingamshire 493, 495

  Queen’s Hotel, Leeds 106–7, 241, 262–3

  Question of Attribution, A (Bennett) 64–5, 76, 126–7, 242, 264, 327

  Radcliffe Camera, Oxford 81, 386

  Radio Times 329, 487

  Ravenhill, Mark 314, 347–8

  Ravenna, Italy 97, 98

  Read, Piers Paul 13

  Reason Why, The (Woodham-Smith) 388

  Rebanks, James 352–3

  Recollections (Grigson) 229, 230

  Red Riding (Peace) 175–6

  Redhead, Mr (coal merchant) 305

  Regent Bookshop, Parkway 29

  Regent’s Park 144, 343, 352, 364, 373

  Rembrandt 60, 346–7, 348 ‘Remembrances’ (Clare) 37

  Reunion, The (radio programme) 281, 361–2

  Reynolds, Joshua 51

  Richard II 387, 226, 387, 492

  Richard III 387

  Richard III Society: St Mary’s, Lead desecrated by 289, 290

  Richardson, Ralph 251

  Rievaulx Abbey 179–80, 299, 463

  Rimington, Stella 165–6

  Roach, Kathleen (née Peel; AB’s aunt) 168–9, 315, 700

  Roberts, Andrew 46, 244

  Roberts, Michael Symmons 242

  Roberts, Sue 64, 76

  Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals 221–2

  Rogers, Byron 71

  Romans in Britain, The (Brenton) 115–16

  Rome 6–7, 6–8, 8, 10, 83–4, 161, 274–7

  Rooney, Wayne 66

  Ross, Julia 348

  Roth, Philip 60, 126, 127, 157–8, 276, 446

  Rothschild, Victor 165

  Round Room, British Museum 387

  Roundhay School, Leeds 384–5

  Roundhouse Theatre, Chalk Farm 90–1, 278–9

  Rousham House, Oxfordshire 12, 283–4

  Routledge, Patricia 88, 361

  Rowse, A. L. 76, 307, 333

  Royal Academy 278

  Royal Festival Hall 107–8, 212–13

  Royal Free Hospital, London 354

  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 485, 487

  Ruckledge family 340

  Rushdie, Salman 298, 372

  Rylands, Dadie 389

  Ryle, Gilbert 218, 271, 332

  S. Apollinaire, Ravenna 98

  Sacks, Oliver 235, 365

  Sackville-West, Vita 16

  Sagar, Sid 360

  Said, Edward 136, 433

  Sainsbury, Simon 84

  St Andrew’s, Mells 257

  St Cuthbert, shrine of 204–5

  St Etheldreda, Ely Place 13–14

  St George’s, Bloomsbury 270

  St George’s Church, Leeds 384

  St James’s Hospital, Leeds 204, 448

  Saint Laurent, Yves 143–4

  St Margaret’s, Westminster 177, 202

  St Martin-in-the-Fields 262

  St Mary’s Church, Primrose Hill 391

  St Mary’s, Lead 289–90

  St Michael’s Church, Headingley 395

  St Nicholas, Salthouse 338–9

  Salaman, Merula 229

  Salisbury Villas, Cambridge 473

  Salle Church, Norfolk 197, 308

  Salvoni, Elena 204

  Satyricon (Fellini): the leading actor an old boy of Leeds Modern school 129

  Savile, Jimmy 262–3, 293, 306, 331

  Say, Marietta 407

  Scaife, John 135, 471

  Scales, Prunella 76, 508

  Scarborough, Adrian 80, 194, 418

  Scarborough, North Yorkshire 114, 262

  Scarfe, Norman 44–5, 249

  Schama, Simon 314–15

  Schlesinger, John 499–502, 517

  Scofield, Paul 177, 202, 350

  Scott, George Gilbert 205, 386

  Sea and the Mirror, The (Auden): prophetic speech in 121–2, 431

  Sebald, W. G. 94, 235

  Second World War 20, 25, 82, 109, 111, 130, 175, 176–7, 209, 229, 232, 248–9, 250, 258, 277, 308, 333, 364, 365, 446–7, 477, 480

  Secret Life of Cows, The (Young) 73

  Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, The (Hastings) 198

  Sentamu, John: gap in the front teeth of 76

  Service of Nine Lessons and Carols (TV broadcast) 131

  Sesame (organic shop) 178

  ‘Set me as a seal upon thine heart’ (Walton) 88

  Settle, North Yorkshire 9, 18, 36, 68, 156–7, 217, 241, 293

  Shakespeare, Nicholas 231, 235

  Shakespeare, William 187, 195, 243, 307, 348, 349, 505–6

  Sharpleshall Street library, Primrose Hill 222, 235, 248, 379

  Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 351

  Shell Guides 159, 202, 205, 249, 273–4, 338

  Shepherd, Mary 163, 321, 337, 340, 343, 356–8, 371

  Sherrin, Ned 122–3, 138, 320, 369

  Shopping and Fucking (Ravenhill) 347–8

  Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 396–7

  Sillitoe, Alan 211

  Sim, Alastair 366

  Single Spies (Bennett) 76, 389, 507, 508

  Sissinghurst Castle, Kent 66

  Sistine Chapel, Rome 65, 275, 518–19

  Sitwell, Edith 388

  Sitwell, Osbert 202

  Six Poets (Bennett) 337

  Skipwith, Peyton 162

  Slater, Nigel 12, 208, 278

  Smalley, Beryl: carpet of defiled by AB 491–2

  Smith, Clive Stafford 8

  Smith, Edwin 101, 160

  Smith, Janet Adam 46

  Smith, Maggie 163, 317, 321, 340–1, 368

  Smithfield Market 312

  Smiths, the (band) 415

  Smut (Bennett) 240

  Snape Maltings, Suffolk 44

  Snow, Jon 112

  Soden, Oliver 369

  Soho, London 461

  Soldiering On (Bennett) 362

  Solopark, near Cambridge 5

  South Bank Show (television programme) 24, 414

  Southwold, Suffolk 250

  Soviet Union 325, 329

  Spalding, Frances 202

  Spender, Stephen 88, 207, 294, 389, 399

  Spurling, Hilary 184

  Spurriergate café, York 187, 188

  Stagecoach 343, 344

  Stainburn, North Yorkshire 310

  Steel, Mark 111

  Steiner, George 135

  Stella (Rupert’s aunt) 225, 243, 253

  Stevenson, Dennis 305

  Stoppard, Tom 134, 225, 336–7

  Story of the Jews (TV programme) 314–15

  Stravinsky, Igor 122, 166, 190

  Stravinsky, Vera: and Stockhausen, Doris 190

  Straw, Jack 6, 14, 17–18, 129

  Strong, Roy 268

  Stubbs, George 269–70

  Sunday, Bloody Sunday (film, dir. Schlesinger) 501, 502

  Sunday Half Hour (radio programme) 256

  Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio) 10

  Swaledale 60, 330, 349

  Sweden 157–8

  Swift, Joe 278

  Sykes, Christopher Simon 294

  Syrian War 372–3

  Talking Heads (Bennett) 133, 361–2, 519

  Tavern on the Green, New York 56

  Taylor, A. J. P. 43, 264–5, 332, 347, 493

  Taylor, Elizabeth: a heavy burden on AB’s knee 243

  Temple Newsam House, Leeds 230, 458–9, 477, 479

  Terracotta Army 119–20

  terrorism 23–4, 26–7, 47, 95, 108–9, 115, 128–9

  Thatcher, Margaret 69, 71, 180, 201, 202, 209, 259, 260, 261, 306, 306–7, 334, 354, 367, 466

  Theatre Royal, Leeds xi, 451–2

  Thewlis, David 366

  Thief ’s Journal (Genet) 265

  This
Sceptred Isle (radio programme) 154

  Thomas, Diana (Rupert’s mother) 52, 225

  Thomas, Graham (Rupert’s stepfather) 52, 225

  Thomas, Owen (Rupert’s brother) 52, 354

  Thomas, R. S. 73

  Thomas, Rupert (R., AB’s partner) ix–x, 4, 18, 38, 48, 72, 107, 117, 154, 182, 196, 198, 204, 240, 250, 300, 310, 313, 320, 333, 335, 351, 361, 367

  and AB’s behaviour/turns of phrase 35, 118, 137, 160, 240, 339

  and animals/nature 35, 74–5, 139, 140, 146, 147, 148, 174, 181, 206, 287, 290, 336, 344, 355

  and antiques/furniture 70–1, 184, 195, 206, 230, 240, 250, 364

  in churches/abbeys 61–2, 97, 152–3, 171, 179, 197, 205, 219, 285

  civil partnership with AB of xi, 50, 52

  compares AB to Heathcliff 189

  in country houses 15–16, 66, 109, 283, 294, 338

  and Debo 167, 203, 319

  in disagreement with AB 115

  drawing by 261

  family of 225, 243, 253, 271, 354

  in galleries/museums 65, 118–19, 120, 126, 175, 274–5, 278, 346

  gifts to AB from 101–2, 301

  and health/illness 80, 140, 146, 156, 368–9

  in Italy 83, 97, 274, 277

  missed by AB 54

  in New York 58, 371

  in Paris 297–8

  party at Dorchester for 227–8

  reading matter of 129–30, 206

  and religion 14, 88, 97, 197, 205, 219, 238, 285, 328, 355

  work as editor 52, 66, 227–8, 265, 266, 274–5, 277

  Titchmarsh, Alan 225, 291, 331

  Titian 164

  Today (radio programme) 136

  Tóibín, Colm 17, 117, 271

  Tomalin, Claire 34

  Tony Awards 62–3

  Tottenham riots 254

  Tour de France 330

  Tovey, Russell 185, 345, 421

  Townsend, Sue 325

  Towton, North Yorkshire 290

  Trafalgar Studios 173

  Trevor-Roper, Hugh 218, 222, 260–1, 271, 284

  Trewin, Ion 222

  Tribeca, New York 58

  Tristan and Isolde (Wagner) 485

  Troilus and Cressida (Walton) 485–6

  Trollope, Anthony 382

  Trooping the Colour 144

  Trudeau, Pierre 454

  Tunbridge Wells 149

  Turner, J. M. W. 478, 482

  Turpin, Randolph 134

  Tynan, Kenneth 17

  UKIP 319

  Ullman, Tracey 28–9

  Un ballo in maschera (Verdi) 487

  Uncommon Reader, The (Bennett) 38, 100, 118, 182–3, 245, 313, 319

  UNESCO 85

  Union Square, New York 77, 371

  United States (US) 8, 36, 38, 68, 110, 111, 128–9, 148, 172, 312

  see also New York

  University Appointments Board, Oxford 82

  University College Hospital (UCH) 141–2, 222, 286

  Unquiet Grave, The (Connolly) 106

  Untold Stories (Bennett) xi, 15, 28, 49, 192, 445

  Updike, John 147, 186–7, 430

  Upper Armley National School, Leeds 59, 255–6

  Uses of Literacy (Hoggart) 259, 341–2, 449