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- ↑ "Alan Bennett's People, National Theatre, review". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 28 July 2021.
- ↑ Evening Standard review
- ↑ "People on tour | Alan Bennett's comedy tours England from September 2013". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
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