«Alan Bennett: ‘I didn’t see the point of coming out'». the Guardian(engelsk). 31. oktober 2015. Besøkt 22. oktober 2021. «His new film, The Lady In The Van, is about the extraordinary figure of Miss Shepherd, who for 15 years, from 1974-89, made her home in a van parked in the driveway of the house where he used to live, a few streets from his current home in Camden Town. Bennett himself is played by Alex Jennings, who is seen at various points stabbing ineffectually with two fingers at a manual typewriter. (---) Bennett portrays his fellow performers in Beyond The Fringe (Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, with whom he made his breakthrough on Broadway in 1962) as larger, more vivid figures; he, in his own accounts, tends to be waiting in the wings nervously while the audience laughs itself silly at Cook’s jokes.»
