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Maxine Peake to guest edit the Star's culture pages
The Morning Star's new ambassador Maxine Peake [Neil Terry]

MORNING STAR ambassador Maxine Peake is to guest edit the newspaper’s culture section on Saturday June 27.

The campaigning actor has lined up responses to the Covid-19 pandemic from performers and musicians, as well as a feature on the Heirloom Seed Library in Palestine.

There will also be interviews with the director of Warrington-based theatre company Not Too Tame and with the principal of the LAMDA theatre school on working-class access to acting training.

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