‘Snippets of KLOF’ seeks out sea-glass moments picked up during travels across shelves, the Net and the KLOF archives.
Just over a year ago, Kate Stables of This is the Kit was one of our ‘Off the Shelf’ guests. The first object she presented to us was a badge featuring the face of the English actor, author, playwright, screenwriter, campaigner for saving our libraries and diarist Alan Bennett:
“I love Alan Bennett so very much. His writing, his voice, his sense of humour, his sense of social justice and fairness.
“Some years ago now, they had a big piece on him in a newspaper. Maybe it was when the film ‘the lady in the van’ was coming out. Anyway, I was at a friend’s house with a badge maker, and so made myself this Alan Bennett badge. I wore it for a long time, and then it started getting a bit bent and pinging off from time to time, and I got worried that I might lose it. So now it lives on my wall.
“I love Alan.”
From: Off the Shelf with Kate Stables (This is the Kit)
BBC documentary: Alan Bennett’s Diaries
Inspired by his acerbic and often hilarious diaries, this documentary shows Alan Bennett as he has never been seen before. The film follows Bennett to New York, the scene of his early triumph in Beyond the Fringe, to his community library in Primrose Hill which, he despairs, some would rather see turned into a pizza restaurant, to the East Coast railway line, which he would like to see renationalised, and to the village in Yorkshire he calls home.