Artistic Tantrums In the first chapter of this memoir (2011) Brian Sewell reveals that, seeing Aladdin as a teenager gave him ‘an undying ambition, never fulfilled, to play the Widow Twanky.’ With his highly affected speech Brian’s Twanky would surely have sounded like Edith Evans’s Lady Bracknell. When you read Alan Bennett’s diaries it’s easy to hear his Yorkshire vowels in your head. Mr Sewell similarly writes …