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	BBC - BBC Four Drama - Alan Clark Diaries: Episodes
		In the first episode, Alan Clark joins the Department of Employment, parties with the Coven, suffers under the tyranny of the civil service and scandalises the House in a late night session.
		Clark revels in his new found status as Minister of Trade and his delicious new diary secretary, but soon finds himself prisoner to a gruelling travel schedule, deep jet-lag and infuriating civil servants.
		In the grip of a hopeless affair, Clark is lovesick and his relationship with Jane is crumbling under the strain.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/alanclarkdiaries/episodes.shtml (339 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Last Diaries: ): In and Out of the Wilderness v. 3: Books: Alan Clark,Ion Trewin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Alan Clark had a lot of faults, yet to this reviewer seems to have been at root a decent person under the layers of dross.
		Clark's father of course was the cultured and erudite Lord Clark of Civilisation (his 1969 baronial title being taken from the name of his TV series).
		Calling on God, whom Clark acknowledges has been more than generous already, to assist, he is, despite the publication of the first volume of the Diaries and the fury of the Coven, Matrix Churchill and the Scott enquiry, returned at the age of 69 as the member for Kensington & Chelsea,that most desirable of seats.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Last-Diaries-Out-Wilderness-v/dp/0297607146 (2339 words)

	Alan Clark, Famous British Politician and Diarist
		Alan Clark became an MP in 1972 and was always seen as a maverick.
		Alan Clark was a frank man about his beliefs, and a keen animal rights campaigner.
		The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written.
	www.tv-celebrity.co.uk /politics/alan-clark.htm (454 words)

	Alan Clark (Estate) CV at PFD
		As a historian Alan Clark sprung to prominence in 1961 with his highly controversial account of the battles and commanders of the British Expeditionary Force in 1915 - The Donkeys.
		Alan Clark describes his election to the Commons in the 1974 general election: his years as a backbencher coincide with Edward Heath as PM, his downfall and the arrival of Margaret Thatcher.
		Alan Clark vividly narrates the course of the dramatic and brutal war between the German and Russians on the Eastern Front during World War II.
	www.pfd.co.uk /clients/clarka/b-aut.html (563 words)

	The Alan Clark Diaries - Shiny Shelf
		This week’s episode covers the Westland Helicopter ‘affair’, Clark’s disarmingly honest (and politically insane) appearance on ‘Question Time' (where he criticised the policy of a government of which he was a part) and the IRA’s bombing of the hotel in which most of the government was staying during their party conference.
		Clark’s own acerbic reaction — ‘If they’d have played their advantage, had a couple of chaps with guns in the crowd, they could have taken out the whole government’ — is both funny and shocking in a way that little is these days.
		Clark, for all his ‘roguish’ charm, was a smug and talentless politician.
	www.shinyshelf.co.uk /article/3/st/797 (284 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Observer review: Diaries by Alan Clark
		Alan Clark's diaries reveal him as a raconteur, a roué...
		Clark's desperate lechery, repeatedly broken promises to himself to reform, his snobbery, his political inanities, his low moments of self-rebuke and even his hypochondria are all very reminiscent of that great diarist, James Boswell and, at times, of Samuel Pepys himself.
		The diaries of the high-minded and consistent cannot be nearly as amusing.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /bookshelf/story/0,9061,644735,00.html (1010 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Reviews/2004/The Alan Clark Diaries
		Doggedly faithful to Clark's original text, the programme presents you with the picture of a man who's his own judge and jury, who frequently condemns himself out of his own mouth, seems to change his mind over the most trivial of things within minutes, and swears profusely.
		Whatever your own feelings towards Alan Clark or the political turmoil he finds himself alternately observing and contriving, there's a depth and dimensionality to his fictionalised incarnation, rooted in the almost ethereal drabness of the world in which he moves, that makes for enthralling entertainment.
		In fact, The Alan Clark Diaries often has the feel of a circus: a roll call of luminaries doing set turns and party pieces, a grand arena in the shape of Parliament itself, and an inspired use of non-specific yet slightly familiar classical music, conferring both a whimsical and operatic status on proceedings.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /reviews/2004/alanclark.htm (990 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Drama - Alan Clark Diaries
		Controversial, irreverent, charming and vain, Alan Clark was one of our most colourful politicians during the 1980s and 90s.
		Adapted from his best-selling diaries, Clark lays bare personal and political landmarks of the time with unique wit and candour, from his first lowly ministerial appointment in 1983, through the glorious rises and the ignominious falls, scandals and affairs.
		The Alan Clark Diaries was adapted for the screen by Jon Jones (Cold Feet, The Debt) who also directed, with Andrew Davies as script consultant.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/alanclarkdiaries (197 words)

	channel4.com - Real Lives - Alan Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was born in 1928, the eldest child of the art historian Kenneth Clark, author of the bestselling Civilisation.
		Clark was appointed junior minister in the Department of Employment in 1983, promoted to Minister of Trade in 1986, then appointed Minister for Defence Procurement in 1989.
		Clark stood down at the 1992 election, and was replaced as Minister for Defence Procurement by his friend Jonathan Aitken.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/R/real_lives/alan_clark.html (789 words)

	Lord of the Commons - Policy Review, No. 110 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clark was the son of the noted art historian Kenneth Clark, who served as director of the National Gallery but is more widely known for the “Civilisation” television series on the bbc.
		His diaries are refreshingly free of the self-conscious drive to project an “historical legacy” — or even a respectable public persona — that is typical of today’s politicians.
		Clark combines keen observation with a delightful sense of comedy and happy turns of phrase, and charmingly mixes the private with the public.
	www.policyreview.org /dec01/bering.html (2013 words)

	The Alan Clark Diaries TV Show - The Alan Clark Diaries Television Show - TV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Alan Clark Diaries is a six-part drama starring John Hurt as the controversial, irreverent, Tory minister.
		Clarke is the minister for Plymouth South, where he longs for a power position as a Minister in Thatcher's government.
		Clark now longs to return to the honest cut and thrust of Parliament.
	www.tv.com /the-alan-clark-diaries/show/33210/summary.html (262 words)

	The Alan Clark Diaries - TV Reviews - TV & Radio - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Clark may have been xenophobic and a mediocre politician but he was a fabulous diarist - funny, mournfully self-deprecating and a master of droll understatement.
		His diaries, published in 1993, provide the narration and much of the dialogue for this wonderful series, which dramatises his political career.
		John Hurt is superb as Clark, with excellent performances also from Jenny Agutter, as Clark's long-suffering wife, and Julia Davis, as Clark's pinched, disapproving secretary.
	www.smh.com.au /news/tv-reviews/the-alan-clark-diaries/2006/04/28/1145861527707.html (376 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Sci-Tech - Clark diaries offer clues in cancer fight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		CANCER experts have hailed the Alan Clark diaries as a major new insight into the study of brain tumours.
		Cancer experts have seized on the frequent mentions in the diaries of very severe headaches at night, an inability to concentrate and of extreme tiredness.
		Another diary has been written and doctors have studied it, but this was the first one to be actually published.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /scitech.cfm?id=1127562004 (382 words)

	The diarist: Two more books in preparation
		ALAN CLARK'S gossipy, indiscreet and hilarious Diaries, his account of the years from 1983 to 1992 when he was a junior minister, became a huge bestseller in 1993, with sales of more than 300,000 copies.
		Mr Clark had kept a diary, making daily observations in a virtually indecipherable and spidery hand, ever since he was at Oxford.
		But he was taken aback by the success of Diaries, said Mr Trewin, and at first resisted the idea of raiding his diaries for further volumes.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/09/08/nclar308.html (395 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Alan Clark's diaries may be turned into a play
		But now Alan Clark, the maverick Tory MP who died last week, may take centre stage more permanently: plans are afoot to complete a play - based on his diaries and written with his collaboration - which would put his womanising and political machinations in the spotlight once again.
		The half-written play is the work of Keith Waterhouse, the columnist and playwright who has already charted the drinking, gambling and womanising of one legendary reprobate in the award-winning Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell - a comedy about Soho's favourite son, culled from his columns in the Spectator and currently being revived in the West End.
		The work was begun in 1995 after Mr Clark, who had by then briefly resigned from politics, agreed with the Birmingham Rep theatre company his diaries could be dramatised.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Thatcher/Story_Three_Col/0,2763,202801,00.html (442 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Party animal
		Clark was bored with most subjects, famously got drunk at a wine tasting instead of reading the brief for his first - yes, first - ministerial speech from the Commons Dispatch Box and got bawled out by Clare Short.
		Alan even lusted after Mrs Thatcher, of course (I recall his excitement as she squeezed his little finger as she left No 10 instead of shaking hands), but he knew it was ridiculous.
		Clark's grandparents had made their pile in trade and became part of the idle rich ("Some were richer, but none were idler," as his distinguished father, Kenneth, wrote).
	politics.guardian.co.uk /arts/story/0,13319,1121074,00.html (1385 words)

	Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: The Alan Clark Diaries: the TV series
		Here's one that I hope will appear on DVD before long: The Alan Clark Diaries, an upcoming six-part BBC4 adaptation of the steamy jottings of the late Tory minister and serial philanderer.
		The series will be based on the second edition of the diaries, In Power, covering Margaret Thatcher?s government in the 1980s.
		Along with all the high drama in the corridors of power, viewers (or is that voyeurs?) and diary connoisseurs like myself are eagerly anticipating the four-in-bed romps featuring Clark and what he used refer to as his "coven" — South African woman Valerie Harkness and both her daughters.
	www.eamonn.com /2003/09/the_alan_clark_diaries_the_tv.htm (504 words)

	Mrs. Thatcher's Minister: The Private Diaries of Alan Clark: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		As a Thatcherite loyalist, Clark records the ups and downs of Conservative leadership, from the electoral triumph of 1983 to the chaotic events of November 1991 when Thatcher was dethroned by backbenchers nervous about losing their seats at the next election.
		An old Etonian aristocrat and intellectual, Clark is a belligerently witty observer of the high echelons of British life- -and also a sentimental and self-pitying one.
		Clark's observations of British political life are acute and his gossip hilarious.
	php-web-hosting.us /stuff-0374139172.html (842 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Alan Clark Diaries [2004]: DVD: John Hurt,Jenny Agutter,Mel Martin,Rosie Fellner,Nicholas Jones,Julia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When all the ministers around him were resigning after trying to cover up their sleaze, the reson Alan Clark survived, and indeed flourished, in many people's estimation was that he hardly ever tried to conceal anything, except perhaps from his beloved wife.
		Clark made his name as a historian and his literary skills are very much on display, but two things about him are extremely surprising - firstly, despite his infidelities, his total devotion to his wife, and secondly his passionate views about the evils of animal cruelty.
		Alan Clark was a conceited, narcissistic politician with laughable delusions about his own talent and worth.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Alan-Clark-Diaries-John-Hurt/dp/B0001MIR8O (1188 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Diaries: Books: Alan Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Publication of the first volume of the Diaries leads 'the coven', a family of former girlfriends, to sell their story to the NEWS OF THE WORLD.
		Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise.
		He was Alan Clark's publisher from 1993 until his death, and has since edited the 2nd volume of Alan Clark's diaries (DIARIES: INTO POLITICS (hb 2000, pb 2001).
	www.amazon.com /Last-Diaries-Alan-Clark/dp/0753816954 (1708 words)

	The Alan Clark Diaries (2004) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Plot Summary: Alan Clarke is the member of parliament for Plymouth Sutton, where he longs for a "proper" role as a Minister in Thatcher's government...
		Characters other than Clark himself are characterised as barely more than extras, which since some of them were leading politicians and civil servants with their own public fame, leaves the viewer feeling distinctly short-changed.
		Even knowing that the diary is one-sided, you grow to have a liking for Alan Clark and to sympathise with him a little.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0388573 (717 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Breakfast \| The Alan Clark Diaries
		The diaries charted a time when the Conservatives were still the ruling party, an era when nobody had ever heard of New Labour.
		Clark's wife Jane also approved: "I thought the casting of John Hurt was brilliant.
		Speaking about his casting as Alan Clark, he says: "My reason for doing The Alan Clark Diaries is that I've always enjoyed playing individuals and you can't get more individual than Alan Clark, who was larger than life.
	newsvote.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/breakfast/3393207.stm (443 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Alan Clark charm offensive backfires
		So there is a won-derful irony in having Hurt, who was so compelling as the rouge-smeared homosexual, play the satyr-like heterosexual and MP Alan Clark, who regularly got naked to commit adultery, was rarely civil and much preferred to instruct his servants rather than perform unpleasant tasks himself.
		The Alan Clark Diaries is a few short steps in the right direction, but stumbles, in my opinion, on what I wholly admit is a rather petty point.
		The memory of that exchange and that of two unpleasant phone conversations with him has left me unwilling to seek membership to the cult who view Alan Clark as that most wearisome of creatures, those men who are forgiven all their transgressions by dint of their exalted position as "a character".
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=311202004 (722 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Alan Clark Diaries: Your views
		The Alan Clark Diaries on BBC Four is one of the most talked about programmes ever made for one of the corporation's digital channels.
		Clark, who died in 1999, was one of the most colourful politicians of the last 20 years, and was as famous for his eccentricity as he was for his womanising.
		Julia Davis' performance as Alan Clark's vindictively officious secretary was superb.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3402221.stm (1409 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| The Alan Clark I knew
		The late Alan Clark was a colourful character, a modern day Pepys who recorded the affairs and scandals, the in-fighting and backbiting of his time in Westminster.
		It's sometimes said of Mrs Thatcher that she was not a good judge of men, but I think it shows she had something about her that she never had Alan Clark, Jonathan Aitken or Jeffrey Archer in her cabinet.
		The Alan Clark Diaries is on BBC Four, on Thursday, 15 January, at 2200.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/3394037.stm (1300 words)

	Diaries: into Politics - Alan Clark - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Alan Clark Diaries “Into Politics” are his own hand written diaries, transferred into print.
		Alan Clark was a conservative MP, most of the time on the backbenches, throughout the Thatcher years and latterly for a portion of Major’s government and for a short time, before his death in opposition.
		These diary extracts chart his entry into the political arena, from 1972, when he was fighting for adoption by a constituency, to his role in opposition and then the Thatcher governments.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/diaries-into-politics-alan-clark (258 words)

	Stories - Alan Clark book review
		As well as biographies of some of the most important figures of the 20th century, we feature here the long-awaited second volume of Alan Clark's diaries.
		In this second volume of his Diaries, the author describes how he came to enter the House of Commons and serve as a backbencher.
		Alan Clark, who died in 1999, was MP for Plymouth, Sutton, then Kensington and Chelsea.
	stories.the-times.co.uk /alanclark (283 words)

	Diaries - Alan Clark - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Or perhaps Di's death awakened a morbid taste for mawkish sentiment in many of us that we are now looking for any excuse to indulge.
		The death of Alan Clark produced some remarkable silliness too, but mawkish sentimentality was thankfully not among it.
		After all, it would have been very difficult to be sentimental, mawkishly or otherwise, about a man as determinedly and deliberately...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/diaries-alan-clark (238 words)

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