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Writer JAN WOOLF on delights and dodginess, from Devs to Captain Tom's NHS fundraiser
EXCELLENT: Devs
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
MY CONSUMPTION of media this week has been irregular and random, a thing of shreds and patches.
I limit corona coverage and won’t watch junk, which rules out most TV — except for Devs on BBC2, excellent. I concentrate instead on live streaming and the feeling of collective consciousness, singling out a play reading of Somebody Else by Jonathan Chadwick.
With actors Laura Lake Adebisi and Ruth Lass, it’s about the relationship between a refugee and her helper, and it has great emotional truth as each actor zooms in at us, as if we were the other character.
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