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Springwood is a waste of time

Springwood, set in June 1939, looks at a series of tricky meetings between the American president FDR and George VI at the Roosevelts’ family...

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No life / The day the bishop hit me in the face

The bishop hit us in the face. That was the best thing about confirmation. When I was 12, along with every other boy in the school, I was formally...

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No life / The day the bishop hit me in the face

The bishop hit us in the face. That was the best thing about confirmation. When I was 12, along with every other boy in the school, I was formally...

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Lloyd Evans

No life / The day the bishop hit me in the face

The bishop hit us in the face. That was the best thing about confirmation. When I was 12, along with every other boy in the school, I was formally...

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A Sinatra musical for hardcore fans

Sinatra: The Musical dramatises the star’s career during a minor wobble in the early 1950s. After falling from grace, Sinatra stages a comeback and...

02.07.2026 10

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No life / Britain’s National Health Service believes in fairness – they treat everyone with equal contempt

Lloyd Evans has narrated this article for you to listen to. Edward Gibbon was troubled by a swelling in his lower abdomen. I have the same condition....

29.06.2026 10

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Britain’s National Health Service believes in fairness – they treat everyone with equal contempt

Lloyd Evans has narrated this article for you to listen to. Edward Gibbon was troubled by a swelling in his lower abdomen. I have the same condition....

28.06.2026 10

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No life / The NHS believes in fairness – they treat everyone with equal contempt

Lloyd Evans has narrated this article for you to listen to. Edward Gibbon was troubled by a swelling in his lower abdomen. I have the same condition....

23.06.2026 10

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Lloyd Evans

No life / The NHS believes in fairness – they treat everyone with equal contempt

Lloyd Evans has narrated this article for you to listen to. Edward Gibbon was troubled by a swelling in his lower abdomen. I have the same condition....

23.06.2026 9

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No life / My new job at the Amazon packing factory

What will you do if it all goes wrong? I have a back-up plan. Working for Amazon. Its Luton warehouse offers tours to the public, and I went along to...

19.06.2026 10

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A play that shows Iranian society is like our own

Under the Shadow is a timely drama set in Tehran in 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war. Saddam’s missiles are raining down on the city which puts an...

18.06.2026 10

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Michelle Terry is ferocious in Brecht’s simplistic tutorial

Bertolt Brecht’s classic, Mother Courage, is about a female war profiteer who drags a wagon of supplies through no man’s land and sells them to...

18.06.2026 10

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No life / My new job at the Amazon packing factory

What will you do if it all goes wrong? I have a back-up plan. Working for Amazon. Its Luton warehouse offers tours to the public, and I went along to...

18.06.2026 10

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Lloyd Evans

Michelle Terry is ferocious in Brecht’s simplistic tutorial

Bertolt Brecht’s classic, Mother Courage, is about a female war profiteer who drags a wagon of supplies through no man’s land and sells them to...

11.06.2026 10

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Lloyd Evans

No life / My new job at the Amazon packing factory

What will you do if it all goes wrong? I have a back-up plan. Working for Amazon. Its Luton warehouse offers tours to the public, and I went along to...

10.06.2026 10

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Lloyd Evans

No life / My new job at the Amazon packing factory

What will you do if it all goes wrong? I have a back-up plan. Working for Amazon. Its Luton warehouse offers tours to the public, and I went along to...

10.06.2026 10

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Theatre / Are we ready for the truth about Judy Garland?

End of the Rainbow feels like a prison drama set in London in 1969. Judy Garland is about to give a string of solo shows in the West End and she’s...

08.06.2026 20

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Are we ready for the truth about Judy Garland?

End of the Rainbow feels like a prison drama set in London in 1969. Judy Garland is about to give a string of solo shows in the West End and she’s...

04.06.2026 10

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Haphazard and bitty but Rosie Holt is superb: Churchill’s Urinal reviewed

When Rachel Reeves became Chancellor she found a lavatory in her private suite which had been used by Churchill in the 1920s. She vowed to remove it....

28.05.2026 20

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Theatre / Why is this Tudor drama full of swearing?

1536, by Ava Pickett, is set in a wheatfield near Colchester during the final months of Anne Boleyn’s life. Three peasant women, Jane, Mariella and...

26.05.2026 20

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No life / Man vs lobster

She was doing a postgrad course in a town by the sea, and a strange thing happened to us one afternoon. On the quayside we saw lobsters being sold...

22.05.2026 20

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Lloyd Evans

Why is this Tudor drama full of swearing?

1536, by Ava Pickett, is set in a wheatfield near Colchester during the final months of Anne Boleyn’s life. Three peasant women, Jane, Mariella and...

21.05.2026 20

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Theatre / A Beatles show without the love

Please Please Me is a play about Brian Epstein whose brief and troubled life remains relatively unknown. Tom Wright’s linear script opens with the...

19.05.2026 20

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A Beatles show without the love

Please Please Me is a play about Brian Epstein whose brief and troubled life remains relatively unknown. Tom Wright’s linear script opens with the...

14.05.2026 20

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Students of theatrical history will adore David Hare’s Grace Pervades

Grace Pervades by David Hare is a drama-documentary about the life and theatrical work of the great Victorian thesp, Sir Henry Irving. He was a morose...

07.05.2026 30

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Lloyd Evans

Man vs lobster

She was doing a postgrad course in a town by the sea, and a strange thing happened to us one afternoon. On the quayside we saw lobsters being sold...

07.05.2026 30

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Almeida’s new Doll’s House is all wrong

A Doll’s House has been reconstructed at the Almeida with a new script by Anya Reiss. Torvald Helmer is an inept drug-addled financier who wants to...

23.04.2026 20

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No life / My lesson in misery from an anti-AI march

Automation is about to take over the world, apparently. But the fightback has begun. On a cold, blowy day a few weeks ago, I joined a stop-the-bots...

20.04.2026 30

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Theatre / The National Theatre needs help

In The Print is a docudrama about the bitter war between Rupert Murdoch and the unions in the mid-1980s. Murdoch was determined to computerise the...

15.04.2026 30

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The National Theatre needs help

In The Print is a docudrama about the bitter war between Rupert Murdoch and the unions in the mid-1980s. Murdoch was determined to computerise the...

09.04.2026 30

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Self Esteem is the star of this David Hare musical

Teeth ’ n’ Smiles is not quite a musical. David Hare’s 1975 play about rock’n’roll includes a handful of tunes performed by a group of...

02.04.2026 30

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Don’t miss it: Summerfolk, at the Olivier, reviewed

Dachniki meaning ‘dacha people’ is the Russian title of the National Theatre’s new production of Gorky’s sprawling 1905 drama. Nina and Moses...

26.03.2026 30

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Lazy: America is Beautiful, Chapter 1 reviewed

Neil LaBute is one of America’s most provocative and interesting playwrights. His best-known work, The Shape of Things, was made into a movie...

19.03.2026 20

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No life / Do I have what it takes to be a magistrate?

Lloyd Evans has narrated this article for you to listen to. I’m thinking of becoming a magistrate. Before applying, I was advised to attend a few...

12.03.2026 40

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My burning ambition for my old school

Every boy longs to see his school burn down and for me the dream came true twice. In February 1977, I was walking to Sunday Mass when I spotted a...

12.03.2026 30

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Fans of George Eliot are in for a shock: Bird Grove at Hampstead Theater reviewed

Bird Grove by Alexi Kaye Campbell is a comedy of manners set in 1841. A portly suitor, Horace, arrives at a respectable house intending to propose to...

11.03.2026 40

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Fans of George Eliot are in for a shock: Bird Grove at Hampstead Theatre reviewed

Bird Grove by Alexi Kaye Campbell is a comedy of manners set in 1841. A portly suitor, Horace, arrives at a respectable house intending to propose to...

05.03.2026 30

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The blandness of Hugh Bonneville

Shadowlands, by William Nicholson, is a solid and unsurprising account of the brief marriage between C.S. Lewis (known as Clive), and the American...

26.02.2026 30

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Theatre / The blandness of Hugh Bonneville

Shadowlands, by William Nicholson, is a solid and unsurprising account of the brief marriage between C.S. Lewis (known as Clive), and the American...

26.02.2026 30

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Dazzling: I’m Sorry, Prime Minister at the Apollo Theatre reviewed

Jim Hacker is back in the West End. I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, written by Jonathan Lynn (who co-wrote the original TV series), brings us the former...

19.02.2026 30

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Theatre / No chemistry between the performers: Arcadia at the Old Vic reviewed

The Old Vic’s production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard has a vital component missing. The house. Stoppard’s brilliant historical comedy is set in a...

16.02.2026 30

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No chemistry between the performers: Arcadia at the Old Vic reviewed

12.02.2026 20

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Marvellously conservative: Cable Street reviewed

05.02.2026 30

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Theatre / If this play is correct, the Foreign Office is a joke

03.02.2026 20

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If this play is correct, the Foreign Office is a joke

29.01.2026 30

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Why is this low-grade Ayckbourn play in the West End?

22.01.2026 40

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The rebellion will have a craft stall

18.01.2026 40

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Oh, Mary!'s climax is an inspirational bit of comedy

15.01.2026 40

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No life / My advice to the next generation

12.01.2026 30

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Theatre / Why has the National got it in for Oirish peasants?

09.01.2026 30

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