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SUSAN DARLINGTON recommends a play about unmarried expectant mothers in the 1960s
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PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
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CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
Be My Baby
Leeds Playhouse
WIDELY performed since its 1997 premiere, this revival of Amanda Whittington's Be My Baby carries extra resonance in the wake of Alabama voting to outlaw abortions.
It tells the story of four young women at a church-run maternity home in 1964, a place where unmarried girls were sent during their pregnancies.
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As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports