ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
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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
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
DENNIS BROE sifts out the ideological bias of the newest TV series offerings, and picks out what to see, and what to avoid
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.
Born in 1920 into a working-class family of Labour stalwarts in Pontypridd, Elaine (nee Floyd) became the first person from her school to go to Oxford, where she read English Literature.
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