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Was His Diary His Downfall?
ALAN CLARK: THE BIOGRAPHY
by Ion Trewin Weidenfeld, £25, pp. 500, ISBN 9780297850731£20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655The audiotape of Alan Clark's Diaries - barely mentioned in this rather Dr Watsonish, sensible shoe of a biography - is well worth hearing.Alan Clark narrates them himself, in a wonderfully high camp, pantomime manner, reminiscent of Kenneth Williams reading the Just William stories.It's a rib-tickling comic turn, and adds a new dimension to the original ...See the full content of this document
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