Alan Bennett on Nicholas Hytner: 'The dodgiest parts of my plays are what gets him going'
From the porn scene in People to the talking chairs in The Habit of Art, the National Theatre's outgoing artistic director is always up for taking risks, says one of his closest collaborators 'Don't worry. Just write it and I'll make it work.'This was Nicholas Hytner, whom I'd not previously met when, in 1989, I was baffled by The Wind in the Willows which, at Richard Eyre's suggestion, Nick was asking me to adapt. A…