Who would have thought the repression, harassment, eviction and exile of impoverished Jews in Tsarist Russia in 1905 could be turned into a successful Broadway musical? Yet Fiddler on the Roof, based ...
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Blackstuff first hit our TV screens in a big way in 1980 as a BBC Play for Today. Five Bafta-winning episodes of Boys from the Blackstuff then screened in 1982, a seminal TV drama phenomenon, full of ...
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Every now and again the weather gods smile down on my walking companion and poet, Peter Gibbs, and I as we follow our year-round progress of walks across Britain every twelve weeks and have been doing ...
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Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) enjoyed huge success from 1936 (the year of his smash-hit, French Without Tears) until 1956, the year of the arrival of John Osborne and Look Back in Anger and all the Ang ...
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