Father! Father! Burning Bright

Alan Bennett''s second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. ''On the many occasions Midgley had killed his father, death had always come easily. He died promptly, painlessly and without a struggle. Looking back, Midgley could see that even in these imagined deaths he had failed his father. It was not like him to die like that. Nor did he.'' Midgley is determin...