... William and Mary burr walnut and 'seaweed' marquetry bureau (Fig 2), apparently in the manner of a London cabinetmaker Samuel Bennett. He is one of the few known to have used what has come to be known as seaweed decoration, and he was the first to label his ...

... adaptations are simply too good to go without, such as Alan Bennett's delicately judged reading of Father! Father! Burning Bright (Radio 4), his tenderly acerbic memoir of filial exasperation. Bennett himself is at last being treated by radio as the powerful ...

... of Alan Bennett's funny, touching and tragic Talking Heads monologues was their failure to spawn a persistent genre. Now at last eo-writers Rob Brydon and producer-director-writer Hugo Blick, have created a small jewel to set beside the Bennett pieces ...

... terraces. Artists and architects took an interest in this sleeping house. Several oil paintings painted in 1922 by Frank Moss Bennett, well-known for his Elizabethan genre pictures, are preserved in the house (Fig 7). An American architect, Francis Comstock ...