She came, she parked, she stayed

This is the story of Miss Shepherd, the genteel vagrant, who lived in her broken-down Bedford van in a quiet street in Camden Town until the council told her to move on. Alan Bennett took pity on her and invited her to move temporarily into his garden but there she stayed for almost two decades.

At the most kind Miss Shepherd could be called an eccentric - but she smelled, she heard voices, and the Virgin Mary appeared to her on a regular basis.

A fascinating story, wonderfully told in a script from Alan Bennett, the definitive chronicler of a certain kind of English ordinariness.