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Alan Partridge returns to the BBC in time for Brexit
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Star director Ivo van Hove’s production provides the power, beauty and excitement that Hedda herself can never find
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Patrick Marber: ‘I’ve never had a good idea I didn’t immediately regret’
He’s worked on Alan Partridge, adapted Fifty Shades of Grey, and is evangelical about ‘deliciously evil’ vaping. But when it came to tackling August Strindberg, Patrick Marber says his ‘infidelity might be an act of love’
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