JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
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MARY CONWAY recommends an affectionate portrayal of Clement Attlee, whose post-war election as prime minister heralded the dawn of the welfare state
Excelling: Roger Rose (left) as Clement Attlee
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KEVIN DONNELLY suggests that the task of transforming cultural spaces is far from over and that photography still has a key role to play
RITA DI SANTO talks to Scottish-Irish filmmaker MARK COUSINS about his new panorama of world cinema The Story of Documentary Film
ALAN MORRISON welcomes a new collection from the most imaginative and committed ecopoet of our time
CAL McBRIDE relishes the lyrical truth of an unstable identity in an over-tidy and conventional social realist treatment
New releases from Shearwater, Florry, and Navy Blue
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
A Modest Little Man
Bread and Roses Theatre, London
FRANCIS BECKETT'S A Modest Little Man transports us to an era when the future sizzled with hope and politicians were braced to transform lives forever.
It’s set at the time when the Labour government, headed by possibly the greatest prime minister of the 20th century, calmly and purposefully turned dreams into reality and created a global example.
As if to rub salt into current wounds, the opening night fortuitously coincided with the momentous Brexit vote in Parliament.
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