- Ibsen. Sunday nights on BBC 4. A reminder of why the Beeb was once great - and why if it stops tacking with every right-wing breeze that blows it might be so again
- Look at the amazing casts! I am almost glad though that there’s no John Gabriel Borkman. No one will ever displace the image I have of Paul Scofield in the role. The most astonishing performance I’ve ever seen in a theatre. A visitation almost. A haunting. He seemed to channel huge elemental power
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- Here’s the whole of that Arena documentary of Scofield. The greatest