The drawings and witty asides of Alan Bennett, author and playwright, have been unearthed in a new publication of Exeter college’s ‘JCR Suggestions book’.
The find not only displays the promising talent of some of Exeter’s most celebrated alumni but offers a rare insight into life at Oxford in the fifties. Other famous contributors include television writer and director Ned Sherrin as well as presenter and broadcaster Russell Harty.
The rector of Exeter college, Francis Cairncross, described the book as “a work of both literary genius and school boy humour”.
