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Oct 19, 2020 · A lifelong socialist who has regularly written about the Labour party, playwright David Hare admits that in his career he has “rarely looked closely at the appeal of Conservative values”.
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Please correct my maths if you can, but by my calculation I’ve lived almost 50 years under Tory rule. Considering that they’ve formed our last six governments, it’s amazing how little fiction Conservatives have generated. There are a couple of good plays about Harold Macmillan, and during the 1980s there was a huge amount of satirical vituperation ...
Cast Credits Hugh Laurie - Peter Laurence Helen McCrory - Dawn Ellison Pippa Bennett-Warner – Rochelle Madeley Danny Ashok - Luke Strand Millie Brady - Lily Laurence Shalom Brune-Franklin - Rose Dietl Sarah Greene - Charmian Pepper Olivia Vinall - Julia Blythe Iain De Caestecker – Duncan Knock Gbemisola Ikumelo - Steff Frost Sidse Babett Knudsen - ...
Acclaimed screenwriter, playwright and director David Hare (The Hours, The Reader, and on MASTERPIECE, the Worriker Trilogy) took on a surprising new subject matter in Roadkill: the appeal of...
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Oct 28, 2020 · This lack of comprehension is something that Hare has consciously set out to remedy in his new BBC four-part political drama Roadkill, which he described in an introductory essay as “an attempt to take Conservative principles seriously”.
Oct 6, 2020 · But I’m typical among the writers of my time in having rarely looked closely at the appeal of Conservative values. In Roadkill, I wanted to ask what happens when you put ideals of freedom and...
Oct 19, 2020 · The four-parter, directed by Line of Duty's Michael Keillor, stars Laurie as a controversial Conservative minister. The cast also includes Us actors Saskia Reeves and Iain De Caestecker alongside...
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Oct 18, 2020 · After Carey Mulligan’s starring turn in Collateral, this time it is Hugh Laurie in the lead as fictional Conservative minister Peter Laurence. I say fictional, but Laurence is obviously a kind of...
