Alan chooses his heroes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoFtBuMGEQ8&feature=youtu.be

c1977? 

Alan on Malcolm Muggeridge, Face Your Image, 1974 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1vl4-VOZRM

http://archive.tribunemagazine.co.uk/article/22nd-april-1966/11/bbc-satire-and-sherrie ...Alan Brien's superb twitting of the Grand Old Twitter himself Malcolm Muggeridge was as rousing a battle of ideas as any page by Shaw. It could not have been as well done in any other medium although it needed more time... Alan would enjoy the reference to GBS.

Philip French recalling a conversation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/06/goodbye-first-love-review

Alan Brien going live

Alan’s entry will go ‘live’ on Thurs 5 January. You should be able to access it by entering a public library membership number at http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

its your birthday approaching darling man. there wil be hand raised pork pies, bayaldi, caper berries

Ronnie Payne's anecdote

"I'm really pleased to be asked. I should have be in touch ages ago. What I intended to tell you was about Alan's kindness to me when I was in a state after my first wife Isabel had run off while I was being a Hemingway type foreign correspondent in Paris. Alan came with me to my deserted London flat. Highly emotional and slightly pissed I burst out - "I can't stand it, the whole place has become a tear trap."
Most friends would have made sympathetic noises. Alan said "That's a great title for your novel"
"Yep. All I need now is another hundred thousand words" I replied and we both went out and got cheerfully drunk.
love ronnie"