JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
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‘Will we see his like again?’
That is the question for actor PHILIP BRETHERTON, playing Tony Benn in a dramatisation of the great man’s diaries
Philip Bretherton in Tony's Last Tape
[Robert Day]
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JONATHAN TAYLOR ponders the difference between autobiography and memoir - between life and story - in Margaret Atwood’s account of herself
Rereleases from Andrew Gold; John McFee, Stu Cook, Keith Knudsen; and The Outer Limits
FANATICAL diarist though he was, it’s somehow fitting that Tony Benn chose to tape his recollections rather write them down — there was, after all, no better way for the remarkably gifted orator to record his thoughts for posterity.
Those dispatches from the front line of the British left, spanning some six decades and more, constitute a monumental archive of listening pleasure.
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