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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Michael Lewis |David Hare |Fang Fang |Ann Patchett
It’s been five long, interesting years since the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the first global lockdowns helped shape a collective experience of isolation, fear, uncertainty, boredom, and even creativity as coronavirus spread around the world.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
thegeekshow.co.uk | David Hare
AAll Doctor Who fans know that it’s canonically true that the Doctor knows Charles Dickens. After all, they defeated the Gelth together on Christmas Eve 1869. But here’s a question no one ever asked: I wonder what Charles Dickens would have made of EastEnders? Moreover, can comparisons be drawn between Dickens’ seminal tales of class struggles and avarice in nineteenth-century London and the dramatic daily lives of the residents of Albert Square?
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thegeekshow.co.uk | David Hare |Rob Simpson
Picture it, Halloween night, 1993 and 13-year-old me is too terrified to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street which my friend’s parents have rented on video (look it up, kids) for the annual Halloween party. So, suffering from major humiliation, I was thrust alone into an upstairs bedroom with the back-up video rental, Elvira Mistress of the Dark.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
hoerzu.at | David Hare
» Im Zeitalter der Fake News aktueller denn je « BeschreibungVier Jahre, von 1996 bis 2000, dauerte der Verleumdungsprozess, den der britische Historiker und Holocaustleugner David Irving gegen die amerikanische Professorin Deborah E. Lipstadt angezettelt hatte. Heraus kam ein denkwürdiger Sieg für Meinungsfreiheit und Gerechtigkeit kontra Geschichtsfälschung und Fanatismus.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
audible.co.uk | David Hare |Donald Katz
In the spring of 2020, as the world grappled with the deepening coronavirus pandemic, acclaimed British screenwriter and playwright David Hare was struck down by the virus himself. With brutal honesty, sharp humor, and his trademark insight, the renowned writer of modern classics like Skylight and Plenty brings us into his own experience battling the bizarre and terrifying symptoms of Covid-19.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | David Hare
Now we have a Labour government, it would be nice to feel repertory will return to the National Theatre. It used to be possible to come to London for a week and see six plays. Audiences loved it. New writing spoke to old in ways which enriched both. Today, you’re more likely to see Ibsen, O’Neill, Molière and Marlowe in the West End.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | David Hare
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share David Hare What’s gone wrong at the National Theatre? Linkedin Messenger Email Now we have a Labour government, it would be nice to feel repertory will return to the National Theatre. It used to be possible to come to London for a week and see six plays. Audiences loved it. New writing spoke to old in ways which enriched both. Today, you’re more likely to see Ibsen, O’Neill, Molière and Marlowe in the West End. What happened to the library of world...
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
thegeekshow.co.uk | David Hare |Graham Williamson
What goes around comes around in Never Have I Ever‘s tale of domestic drama and drinking games. Sam (Andrew Lee Potts), is a struggling screen writer with a drinking habit who misses his deadlines and is low on cash. His reputation around town precedes him, and his struggles to get the local pub owner to shout him a beer leads to meeting mysterious good Samaritan Mara (Beatrice Fletcher), who’s keen to know more about Sam’s background.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | David Hare
Much the most hilarious headline of the past couple of weeks was in the Daily Telegraph. It read: “Starmer’s worst mistake yet.” Starmer had been Prime Minister for barely five days. Deep in denial, the mourners at the Telegraph couldn’t bear to hold off. The same journalists who were imploring the Conservative Party to take a hard look at its record of failure were disqualified from reporting that the only institution to have had a more damaging election than the Tories was the British press.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
cim.co.uk | David Hare
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) can seem, at first sight, to be quite an intimidating topic, especially if you are new to the topic or if your organisation is in the exploratory or early stages of its own ED&I journey.
We can easily slip into an anxious mindset – ‘what if I get it wrong?’ or ‘what if we upset this group of people?’ We can get hung up on ‘rules’ and ‘policies’, but this can blind you to the potential and possibilities of becoming more inclusive.
