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Elaine Morgan: A Life Behind the Screen
Biography of a passionate socialist and feminist who made an outstanding contribution to popular drama
LIFELONG COMMUNICATOR: Elaine Morgan in 1998
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JOHN FLINT explores the Appleby Blue development, winner of the Stirling prize 2025
GORDON PARSONS enjoys the wealth of wisdom and the clarity of expression from a dialogue between Chomsky and Mujica
GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck
WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb
RITA DI SANTO points out the social experience of exploitation and oppression that inform the popular winners at this year’s festival
BIOGRAPHER Daryl Leeworthy has done an enormous service by providing this introduction to the important work of Elaine Morgan (1920-2013), who used her considerable talent to argue for socialism, peace, women’s liberation and progressive values.
She was also a prolific journalist, teacher, broadcaster and a serious theoretician who studied human evolution from a feminist perspective, with The
Descent of Woman (1972) among her most notable works.
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