MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
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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 (10) - please credit Robert Day
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JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
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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