 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 . A major biography was written by Jad Adams and published by Macmillan in 1992 ; it was updated to cover the intervening 20 years and reissued by <unk> Publishing in 2011 : Tony Benn : A Biography ( ISBN 0 @-@ 333 @-@ <unk> @-@ 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 @-@ <unk> ) . An autobiography , Dare to be a Daniel : Then and Now , Hutchinson ( ISBN 978 @-@ <unk> ) , was published in 2004 . 
