Untold Stories

  Pachelbel, Johann 1

  Pacifist’s War, A (Partridge) 1

  Padgate, RAF 1

  Padua 1

  Page, Anthony 1

  Page, Stephen 1

  Palace cinema, off Stanningley Road, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4

  Palace cinema, Onslow Street, Guildford 1

  Palazzo S. Justina, Venice 1

  Palin, Michael 1

  Pallant House, Chichester 1

  Palmer, Samuel 1, 2

  Panzer, Joan 1

  Paris air crash (1974) 1, 2

  Parker, Jamie 1

  Parker Bowles, Camilla (later Duchess of Cornwall) 1

  Parkinson (television talk show) 1

  Parr, Mr (Mental Health Welfare Officer) 1, 2, 3

  Partie de Campagne (film) 1

  Partridge, Frances 1

  Pasmore, Victor 1

  Passionate Prodigality, A (Chapman) 1

  Pasture View, Leeds: snicket at back of 1, 2

  Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire 1, 2

  Pater, Walter 1

  Patriot for Me, A (Osborne) 1

  Patten, Chris 1

  Paul III, Pope 1

  Payn, Graham 1

  Peel, Clarence (AB’s uncle) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Peel, Evelyn (AB’s great-aunt) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Peel, Kathleen Elizabeth (AB’s aunt) see Roach, Kathleen

  Peel, Lemira (Myra; AB’s aunt) see Rogerson, Lemira

  Peel, Mary Ann (AB’s maternal grandmother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

  Peel, Sir Robert 1

  Peel, William (AB’s maternal grandfather) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Peeping Tom (film) 1

  Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of 1

  Pembroke, Lady: glacial private parts of 1

  Penguin Books 1

  Penguin New Writing 1

  Pen-y-ghent 1

  Peter Martyr, St 1

  Petersfield, Hampshire 1, 2

  Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus 1

  Phantom of the Opera (musical) 1

  Philip, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh 1

  Piaf, Edith 1

  Picardie, Ruth 1

  Picasso, Pablo 1, 2, 3

  Picture Post 1, 2

  Picturedrome, Wortley Road, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Piero della Francesca 1, 2

  Piggott, Lester 1

  Pilgrimage of Grace 1, 2, 3

  Pimpernel Smith (film) 1, 2

  Pinochet, General 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Pinter, Harold 1, 2, 3

  Piper, John 1, 2

  Pirie, Madsen 1

  Pisa 1

  Pissarro, Lucien 1

  Pity of War, The (Ferguson) 1

  Plath, Sylvia 1

  Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge) 1

  Playhouse cinema, Guildford 1

  Playing Sandwiches (Talking Heads monologue) (Bennett) 1

  Plowright, Joan 1

  Plutarch 1

  Pollaiuolo, Antonio del 1

  Ponsonby, Robert 1

  Pontefract Barracks 1, 2

  Pope-Hennessy, John 1

  Popper, Karl 1

  Portman, Eric 1, 2

  Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth) 1

  Portrait or Bust (TV documentary) 1

  Portsmouth 1

  Potter, Dennis 1, 2, 3, 4

  Powell, Anthony 1, 2, 3

  Powell, Enoch 1

  Powell, Michael 1, 2, 3

  Powell, Susan 1

  Powell, Tristram 1

  Prague 1

  Pre-Raphaelites 1, 2, 3

  Prescott, H. F. M. 1n

  Presley, Elvis 1

  Preston, Lancashire 1

  Preston, Stuart (‘the Sergeant’) 1

  Price, Cedric 1

  Price, Vincent 1

  Prick Up Your Ears (Orton; screenplay by AB) 1

  Priestley, J. B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Princess Grace Hospital, Nottingham Place, London 1, 2

  Pritchett, Lady 1

  Pritchett, Sir V. S. 1, 2

  Private Eye 1

  Private Passions (radio programme) 1, 2

  Profile Books 1

  Proms (Promenade Concerts) 1

  Prospero’s Books (film) 1

  ‘Proud Songsters’ (Hardy) 1

  Proust, Marcel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Public Record Office 1

  Punch 1, 2, 3

  Pursuit of Love, The (Mitford) 1

  Pushkin, Aleksandr 1

  Puttnam, David 1

  Pym, Barbara 1

  Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 1

  Queen’s Theatre, London 1, 2

  Question of Attribution, A (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Question Time (television programme) 1

  RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) 1

  Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford 1 radio 2

  Radio Fun (children’s comic) 1

  RAF (Royal Air Force) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  RAF Chest Unit, King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, Midhurst 1

  Rafferty, Sean 1

  Raiders of the Lost Ark (film) 1

  Railtrack 1

  Rains, Claude 1, 2

  Randle, Frank 1, 2

  Random Harvest (film) 1

  Random House 1, 2

  Raphael: Sistine Madonna 1

  Rathbone, Basil 1

  Rattigan, Sir Terence 1, 2, 3, 4

  Ravelstein (Bellow) 1

  Ravenhill, L. 1

  Ravenhill, Mark 1

  Ravilious, Eric 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Ray, Ted 1

  Read, Al 1

  Read, Herbert 1

  Reader’s Digest 1

  Rebecca (Du Maurier) 1, 2

  Red Shoes, The (film) 1, 2

  Redcliffe-Maud, Lord 1

  Redgrave, Sir Michael 1

  Redhead, Mr (coal-merchant, Ingleton) 1

  Redman’s, grocers, Leeds 1

  Regent Bookshop, Parkway, Camden Town 1

  Regent’s Park, London 1, 2, 3

  Regent’s Park Road, London 1

  Reid, Forrest 1

  Reid, Dr John 1, 2

  Reisz, Karel 1

  Rembrandt van Rijn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Remembrance of Things Past (Proust) 1

  Renault, Mary 1, 2

  Renishaw Hall, Sheffield 1

  Repton School 1

  Revised Latin Primer, The (Kennedy) 1

  Revnell and West (‘The Long and the Short of It’) 1

  Rex cinema, Cambridge 1

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua: Colonel Tarleton 1

  Ribble River 1

  Ribblesdale 1

  Ribblesdale, Lord 1

  Richard, Sir Cliff 1

  Richard II, King 1, 2, 3

  Richards, Ben 1

  Richardson, Tony 1, 2

  Ridge Lee Hospital, Lancaster 1

  Ridley, Nicholas 1

  Rievaulx Abbey 1, 2, 3

  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1

  Riley, Old Mother 1

  Ripon 1, 2

  Ripon, Bishop of 1

  Ripon Cathedral 1

  Roach, Kathleen Elizabeth (née Peel; AB’s aunty) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 passim, 7

  Roach, William (Bill; AB’s uncle) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Roberts, Alderman 1

  Roberts, Andrew 1

  Roberts, Rachel 1, 2, 3

  Roberts, William 1, 2

  Robinsfield, St John’s Wood, London 1

  Robinson, Tony 1

  Robson, Flora 1

  Rocco, San 1, 2

  Rochdale, Lancashire 1

  Rodin, Auguste 1

  Rodley 1, 2, 3

  Rogers, Bunny 1

  Rogers, Claude 1

  Rogerson, Lemira (Myra; née Peel; AB’s aunty) 1, 2, 3, 4 passim, 5, 6

  Rogerson, Stan (AB’s uncle) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Romano Santi’s restaurant, Soho, London 1

  Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) 1

  Romney, George 1

  Roper family 1

  Rosen, Michael 1


  Rosenkavalier, Der (Strauss) 1

  Ross, Diana 1

  Rostron family 1

  Roth, Philip 1, 2, 3

  Roubiliac, Louis-François 1

  Round Britain Quiz: Eric Korn a sad loss to 1

  Roundhay, Leeds 1

  Rousham Park, Bicester, Oxfordshire 1

  Rowlandson, Thomas 1

  Rowling, J. K. 1

  Rowse, A. L. 1

  Rowton Houses 1

  Royal Academy, London 1

  Royal Collection, Windsor 1

  Royal College of Art, London 1

  Royal College of Physicians building,

  Regent’s Park 1

  Royal Court Theatre 1

  Royal Family 1, 2, 3, 4

  Royal Festival Hall, London 1

  Royal Free Hospital, London 1

  Royal Horticultural Society 1

  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1, 2, 3, 4

  Royal Parks, London 1

  Royalty Theatre, Morecambe 1, 2, 3, 4

  RSPCA 1

  RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) 1

  Ruislip crematorium 1

  Rumsfeld, Donald 1

  Runciman, Sir Steven: and fondness for Balkan trinkets 1

  Rupert Murdoch Chair in Language and Communication, Oxford: blot on reputation of Oxford University and bee in AB’s bonnet 1, 2, 3, 4

  Ruskin, John 1

  Russell, Bertrand 1

  Russell, Rosalind 1, 2

  Rutter, Frank 1

  Rylands, Dadie 1

  Sackville-West, Vita 1

  Saga 1, 2, 3

  Sainsbury’s: lost architectural opportunity at Camden Town 1

  Sainsbury’s Paintings in Schools scheme 1, 2, 3

  St Bartholomew’s church, Armley, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  St Bartholomew’s Vicarage 1

  St Catherine’s College, Oxford 1

  St Chad’s church, Far Headingley, Leeds 1

  St Dunstan’s, Canterbury 1

  St George’s Church, Trotton 1

  St James’s Hospital, Leeds 1, 2

  St James’s Palace, London 1

  St John Ambulance Brigade 1, 2

  St Mark’s basilica, Venice 1, 2, 3

  St Mark’s church, Primrose Hill 1

  St Mark’s Hospital, Northwick Park 1, 2

  St Mary of Bethany church, Tong Road, Leeds 1, 2, 3

  St Mary’s Abbey, York 1

  St Mary’s church, Oxford 1

  St Michael’s church, Headingley, Leeds 1, 2

  St Omer Catholic college 1

  St Peter in the East, Oxford 1

  Sainte Chapelle, Paris 1

  Salaman, Merula (Lady Guinness) 1, 2

  Salt’s Mill, Saltaire 1, 2

  Sams, Jeremy 1, 2

  Sandford, Jeremy 1

  Sandler, Albert, and his Palm Court Orchestra 1

  Sardinia 1

  Sargent, John Singer 1, 2

  Sargent, Sir Malcolm 1, 2, 3

  Sartre, Jean-Paul 1

  Sassetta 1

  Saturday Book, The annual 1

  Savoy Hotel, London 1, 2

  Say Something Happened (Bennett) 1

  Sayre, Joel 1

  Scales, Prunella 1

  Scarborough 1

  Scarfe, Norman 1

  Schama, Simon 1

  Schlesinger, John 1, 2, 3, 4

  Schmidts restaurant, Charlotte Street, London 1

  Scots Guards 1, 2

  Scott, James ‘Scotty’: husband of Thora Hird 1

  Scott-Rademakers, Janette: daughter of Thora Hird 1, 2, 3

  Scuola San Giorgio, Venice 1

  Sea Hawk, The (film) 1

  Sebald, W. G. 1

  Second World War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

  Secret Policeman’s Other Ball, The (Amnesty concert) 1

  Seinfeld, Jerry 1

  Sellick, Phyllis 1

  Settle, Yorkshire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Seurat, Georges: La Grande Jatte 1

  Seventh Veil, The (film) 1, 2

  Sewell, Brian 1

  Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion, The (Steinberg) 1

  Shakespeare, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Shanghai 1

  Sharpleshall Street, Primrose Hill, London 1

  Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 1

  Shepard, E. H. 1

  Shepherd, Miss 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Shepherd’s Market, London 1

  Sherwin, David 1

  Shipman, Harold 1

  Short, Clare 1

  ‘Show Saturday’ (Larkin) 1

  Shrewsbury School 1, 2

  Sickert, Walter Richard 1

  Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 1, 2

  Sierra Leone 1

  Silence of the Lambs, The (film) 1

  Silver, Jonathan 1

  Simmonds, Posy 1

  Simmons, Jack 1

  Simmons, Jean 1

  Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor) 1, 2

  Sinatra, Frank 1

  Singapore 1, 2, 3, 4

  Single Spies (Bennett) 1, 2

  Sissinghurst 1

  Sitwell, Dame Edith 1, 2

  Sitwell, Sir George 1

  Sitwell, Sir Osbert 1, 2

  Sitwell family 1

  Skipton 1, 2, 3

  Slaney, Dr 1, 2

  Slater, Nigel 1

  Slevin, Dr Maurice 1, 2, 3

  Smail, R. C. 1

  Smith, Alexis 1, 2, 3

  Smith, Colin 1

  Smith, Dame Maggie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Smith, Sydney 1

  Snow, Jon 1

  Soldiering On (Bennett) 1

  Somme, the 1, 2

  Song of Bernadette, The 1, 2

  Song of the Earth, The (Mahler) 1

  Song to Remember, A (film) 1

  Songs of Praise (television programme) 1

  Sonning, Berkshire 1

  Sontag, Susan 1

  Sotheby’s auctioneers 1, 2

  Soup Kitchen, Chandos Place, London

  1

  South Bank Show (television programme) 1

  Southall, Middlesex 1

  Southwold, Suffolk 1, 2, 3

  Spanish Still Life exhibition, National Gallery 1

  Spencer, Stanley 1

  Spender, Stephen 1, 2, 3

  Spitting Image (television programme) 1

  Spottiswoode, Daphne 1

  Stagecoach (film) 1

  Stalingrad (Beevor) 1

  Standing, John 1

  Stanningley Road, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4

  Stanwyck, Barbara 1

  Starkey, David 1

  Stars Look Down, The (film) 1

  Stedall, Jonathan 1

  Steinberg, Leo 1

  Steiner, George 1

  Stephen, Elizabeth 1

  Stockabank Wood 1

  Stokesay Castle 1

  Stokesay church 1

  Stone, Norman 1

  Stone of Scone: fatuous (and unconstitutional) removal to Scotland of 1

  Stonyhurst 1, 2

  Stoppard, Tom 1, 2

  Storey, David 1, 2, 3, 4

  Strachey, Lytton 1

  Stratford-upon-Avon 1

  Strauss, Richard: Four Last Songs 1

  Stravinsky, Igor 1

  Straw, Jack: a creature of the Murdoch press; obsequious noddings of 1, 2

  Street of Crocodiles (Schulz) 1

  Stripping of the Altars, The (Duffy) 1

  Stubbs, George 1, 2

  Studio 1, Oxford Street, London 2

  Suddenly Last Summer (film) 1, 2, 3

  Suez demonstration (1956) 1

  Sullivan, Francis L. 1, 2, 3

  Summertown, Oxford 1

  Sun (newspaper) 1

  Sunday, Bloody Sunday (film) 1

  Sunday Half Hour (radio programme) 1

  Sunday Night at the London Palladium 1

  Sunday Times 1

  Sunset Across the Bay (Bennett) 1, 2, 3

  Surrey
Heath Liberal Democrats 1

  Sutcliffe, Tom 1

  Sutton Hoo, Suffolk 1

  Swaledale 1

  Swinbrook, Oxfordshire 1

  SWP (Socialist Workers Party) 1

  Sydow, Max von 1

  Symondson, Anthony 1

  Szasz, Thomas 1, 2

  Ta Ta I Tatti (Bennett) 1

  Tale of Two Cities, A (film) 1

  Talking Heads (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Talking Landscapes (television series) 1

  Talking to a Stranger (Hopkins) 1

  Tantra exhibition (Hayward Gallery, London, 1972) 1

  Tatchell, Peter 1

  Tate Britain 1, 2

  Tatti, I, Florence (villa) 1

  Taylor, A. J. P. 1

  Taylor, Ben 1

  Taylor, Elizabeth 1;

  sits briefly on AB’s knee 1, 2

  Taylor-Bradford, Barbara 1

  Tebbit, Lord 1, 2

  television 1

  Telling Tales (Bennett) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tempest family 1

  Temple Newsam House, Leeds 1, 2

  ‘Ten Types of Hospital Visitor’ (Causley) 1

  Tenniel, John 1

  Tetleys Brewery 1

  That Was Satire That Was (Carpenter) 1

  Thatcher, Lady 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Thaw, John 1

  Theaker Lane, Leeds 1, 2

  Theatre de Complicite 1

  Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 1

  Theatre Royal, Leeds 1, 2, 3

  Thesiger, Wilfred 1, 2

  ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad’ (Larkin) 1

  They Were Expendable (film): as example of the epic 1

  ‘Things That Matter, The’ (Nesbit) 1

  This England magazine: as house magazine of UKIP 1

  This Sporting Life (film) 1, 2

  Thomas, Dylan 1

  Thomas, Irene 1

  Thomas, Keith 1, 2

  Thomas, Rupert (AB’s partner) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Thomas More (Ackroyd) 1

  Thompson, Francis 1

  Thompson, Harry 1

  Thompson, Mark 1

  Thompson, Robert 1

  Thomson, David 1

  Thornton’s Arcade, Leeds 1, 2, 3

  Three Queer Lives (Bailey) 1

  Three Sisters (Chekhov) 1

  Through the Keyhole (television programme) 1

  Through Wood and Dale (Lees-Milne) 1

  Thurlow, Lord 1

  Thwaite, Anthony 1

  Tierney, Gene 1

  Times, The 1, 2

  Timewatch (television programme) 1

  Timpson, Miss (teacher) 1

  Titchmarsh, Alan 1

  Titian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  To Catch a Thief (film) 1

  ‘To the Sea’ (Larkin) 1

  Toast (Slater) 1

  Today show 1, 2

  Todd, Ann 1, 2

  Tomalin, Nicholas 1

  Tong Road, Leeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Torrigiano 1

  Torrington Diaries: Tours through England 1781 (Byng) 1

  Toulouse 1

  Tovey, Russell 1

  Tower cinema, Upper Briggate, Leeds 1

  Train, Jack 1

  ‘Traumerei’ (Larkin) 1, 2

  Travers, Ben 1

  ‘Trees, The’ (Larkin) 1

  Trenet, Charles 1

  Trevelyan, G. M. 1