Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with Talking Heads, his award-winning series of 12 monologues.One of the best known of this series, 'Bed Among the Lentils' features Susan, a frustrated vicar's wife with a fondness for sherry, who distracts herself from her ambitious husband and his doting parishioners by conducting an affair with a local grocer, Ramesh Ramesh.Darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, the series is widely regarded as a modern classic (The Times).