Alan Bennett: 'I didn't see the point of coming out'
Socialist, royalist, show-off, shy ... in life and in his fiction, Alan Bennett is a bundle of contradictions. He talks about the 'totalitarian' Tories, why he doesn't go to the theatre, and a lifetime of being contraryAlan Bennett, now 81, is as dapper as you like in knitted tie and red-soled grey suede shoes. He still has that schoolboy mop of blond hair, and were it not for a little stiffness as he rises from his …