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Words and Music
Words and Music
Annual T. S. Eliot Memorial Reading with Carol Ann Duffy
Annual T. S. Eliot Memorial Reading with Carol Ann Duffy...
Coming Out
Coming Out
Looking Forward
Looking Forward
Susannah Herbert on the resilience of poetry
Susannah Herbert on the resilience of poetry
T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading
T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading
On Shakespeare’s sonnets – video
On Shakespeare’s sonnets – video
On Shakespeare’s sonnets – audio
On Shakespeare’s sonnets – audio
Consider the seahorse – full audio
Consider the seahorse – full audio
Consider the seahorse – short film
Consider the seahorse – short film

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David Hare

David Hare

David Hare is a  playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. He has written over thirty stage plays which include Plenty (1978), Pravda (1985, with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture (1988), Racing Demon (1990), Skylight (1997), Amy’s View …


David Hare recommends The Theatres of George Devine, The Year of Magical Thinking, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth, The End of the Affair.

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    May 9, 2018

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