Editing Tony Benn (section)

==Diaries and biographies==
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Benn was a prolific diarist.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tony Benn {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Radicalism|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Benn|url-status=live|access-date=3 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622034431/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tony-Benn|archive-date=22 June 2018}}</ref> Nine volumes of his diaries have been published. The final volume was published in 2013.<ref>[https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/happy-birthday-tony-benn-87-pl0tdjr7kn0 "Happy Birthday Tony Benn, 87"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315031338/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/courtsocial/article3371918.ece |date=15 March 2014 }}, ''The Times'', 3 April 2012.</ref> Collections of his speeches and writings were published as ''Arguments for Socialism'' (1979), ''Arguments for Democracy'' (1981), (both edited by [[Chris Mullin (politician)|Chris Mullin]]), ''Fighting Back'' (1988) and (with Andrew Hood) ''Common Sense'' (1993), as well as ''Free Radical: New Century Essays'' (2004). In August 2003, London DJ Charles Bailey created an album of Benn's speeches ({{ISBN|1-904734-03-0}}) set to [[ambient music|ambient groove]].

He made public several episodes of audio diaries he made during his time in Parliament and after retirement, entitled ''The Benn Tapes'', broadcast originally on BBC Radio 4. Short series have been played periodically on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jr2r#synopsis|title=BBC Radio 7 Programmes – The Benn Tapes|work=BBC|date=16 March 2009|access-date=3 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019094345/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jr2r#synopsis|archive-date=19 October 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> A major biography was written by Jad Adams and published by [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] in 1992; it was updated to cover the intervening 20 years and reissued by Biteback Publishing in 2011: ''Tony Benn: A Biography'' ({{ISBN|0-333-52558-2}}). A more recent "semi-authorised" biography with a foreword by Benn was published in 2001: David Powell, ''Tony Benn: A Political Life'', [[Continuum Books]] ({{ISBN|978-0826464156}}). An autobiography, ''Dare to be a Daniel: Then and Now'', [[Hutchinson (publisher)|Hutchinson]] ({{ISBN|978-0099471530}}), a reference to the [[Daniel in the lions' den|Old Testament prophet in the lions' den]], was published in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2011/07/tony-benn-biography-labour|title=Tony Benn: a Biography|website=www.newstatesman.com|access-date=3 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903151004/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2011/07/tony-benn-biography-labour|archive-date=3 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

There are substantial essays on Benn in the ''Dictionary of Labour Biography'' by [[Phillip Whitehead]], Greg Rosen (eds), [[Politicos Publishing]], 2001 ({{ISBN|978-1902301181}}) and in ''Labour Forces: From Ernie Bevin to Gordon Brown'', Kevin Jefferys (ed.), [[I.B. Tauris|I.B. Tauris Publishing]], 2002 ({{ISBN|978-1860647437}}). American [[Michael Moore]] dedicates his book ''Mike's Election Guide 2008'' ({{ISBN|978-0141039817}}) to Benn, with the words: "For Tony Benn, keep teaching us".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zcommunications.org/michael-moore-on-the-election-the-bailout-healthcare-and-10-proposals-for-the-next-president-by-michael-moore|title=Michael Moore on the Election, the Bailout, Healthcare, and 10 Proposals for the Next President by Michael Moore|work=Democracy Now!|author-link=Amy Goodman|last=Goodman|first=Amy|publisher=ZCommunications|access-date=3 May 2010|date=1 November 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002180822/http://www.zcommunications.org/michael-moore-on-the-election-the-bailout-healthcare-and-10-proposals-for-the-next-president-by-michael-moore|archive-date=2 October 2011|via=the Wayback Machine}}</ref>

On 5 March 2019, it was announced that a large political archive of Benn's speeches, diaries, letters, pamphlets, recordings and ephemera had been accepted in lieu of £210,000 inheritance tax and allocated to the [[British Library]]. The audio recordings total to thousands of hours of content.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/05/the-most-tremendous-result-how-tony-benn-celebrated-losing-to-denis-healey |title= 'The most tremendous result': how Tony Benn celebrated losing to Denis Healey |newspaper= The Guardian |first= Mark |last=Brown |date= 5 March 2019 |access-date= 16 March 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190308140122/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/05/the-most-tremendous-result-how-tony-benn-celebrated-losing-to-denis-healey |archive-date= 8 March 2019 |url-status= live }}</ref>