A day out... Alan Bennet

Dennis Potter, past it after the Singing Detective . Only allowed on TV by Melvyn Bragg.

Alan Bennet; good in parts , but not really saying any thing much these days. I thought the History Boys was bloated nostalgia for a failed education system.

yes - there was a miserable and lacklustre air to DP's later work, especially Blackeyes and then the post-hummusly aired Karaoke and, er, what was that strange one set in the future with a Murdoch-style media-mogul running the world? But I loved Lipstick on Your Collar (not seen it since the original airing though, and not sure how it would hold up all these years later - unlike Pennies from Heaven which I watched not too long ago with great relish).

History Boys the film made me feel a bit soiled, like one of Bennett's supper-splattered raincoats. My wife won't have a word said against him, though.