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director in the hope that it might help him to appreciate what the screenplay was about. He received it politely enough and in due course gave me it back, I suspect without having read it, directors tending to form their own ideas about a text, one script from the author hard enough to cope with without wanting two.

So I put it away in a drawer in 1982 where it has remained ever since. I’ve dusted it off and published it now, I suppose, as part of an effort to slim down my Nachlass and generally tidy up.

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“The Laying On of Hands” was first published in Great Britain by Profile Books, under the title The Laying On of Hands.

“Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet” was first published in Great Britain by BBC as part of Talking Heads 2.

“Father! Father! Burning Bright” was first published in Great Britain by Profile Books, under the title Father! Father! Burning Bright.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bennett, Alan.

The laying on of hands : stories / Alan Bennett

p. cm.

Contents: The laying on of hands—Miss Fozzard finds her feet—Father! Father! Burning bright.

ISBN 0-312-29051-9 (hc)

ISBN 0-312-42225-3 (pbk)

1. Great Britain—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6052.F5 L39 2002

823'914—dc21