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Savage Ms-Siah

5 Jun 201729 Oct 2020
“We’ll only ever change things by going on with what we believe.” In the early 2000s, I was researching a planned history of the BBC's Play for Today drama strand…
television drama

A Light Touch And A Good Ear

27 Feb 201729 Oct 2020
When I wrote an obituary of the enchanting writer Julia Jones for The Independent, I said that she "quietly and assuredly told bewitching, humane stories of simple lives in crisis,…

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