I feel so sad - he's always been there it seems. Such a funny man. I heard him being interviewed on himself, giving his obituary, on R4 at lunchtime - he could even joke about his own death and he knew when it would be used!
R.I.P.
"Alan Bennett sent five people out just to garner some of the things they might overhear people saying.
My absolute favourite was this. One of them was in a garden centre and he heard a man saying, 'That sundial I bought last year has paid for itself already.' "