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START: I’ve got this idea of buying a van, filling it with books and taking it round country markets � Shropshire, Herefordshire. ‘The open road, the dusty highway.
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END: That’s what the tosh is for. Brief Encounter, Gracie Fields, it’s an antidote. Sheer calculated silliness.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011, p.115.
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