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the general election, viewed by millions worldwide. Now the old- style leftie, bought to life by actor Tom Walker, hits the comedy circuit with a new show. Occasionally mistaken for a genuine journalist, Pie pokes fun at our profession. Sometimes, he’s a little bit too close for comfort.
www.jonathanpie.com
Lucy Porter Touring the UK in February Comedian, occasional actor and City AM columnist (she also writes for Cook Vegetarian Monthly and Mother & Baby) Lucy Porter hits the road in February with her latest Edinburgh Fringe show, Choose Your Battles. At a time when it’s easy to be irritated, Lucy uses her experiences to help you decide which battles are worth fighting.
www.lucyporter.co.uk
Theatre Hamilton Victoria Palace Theatre, London, until June They say no publicity is bad publicity, so, when Donald Trump attacked the cast of Hamilton on Twitter, it did no harm to the hip-hop musical about the West Indies immigrant who became George Washington’s right-hand man. Trump’s vice- president Mike Pence was booed when he took his seat on Broadway and, when the curtain fell, the cast returned to the stage to tell him: “We are the diverse Americans anxious you will not protect us.” Catch the show while you can.
www.hamiltonthemusical.co.uk
Spotlight: film Press fights gag over Vietnam
As the Vietnam War dragged on, a team of US Defense Department analysts in 1967 prepared a highly classified study of the country’s political and military involvement in the conflict. Among its most damning findings were suggestions that Harry S Truman, Dwight D Eisenhower, John F
Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson had misled the public about the US’s involvement in the war. The report was leaked to the New
York Times, which in 1971 published a series of scathing stories that further undermined public support for the war. The government did not take this lying down, and obtained an injunction
to spike the stories. The Times joined forces with the Washington Post to fight for the right to publish. What happens next is revealed in
this new Steven Spielberg-directed film The Post starring Meryl Streep as the country’s first female newspaper publisher and Tom Hanks as its hard-driving editor. The Post is released in the UK in
January. Book review
Fleet Street stories in a tale of two killers The two met in London, and
Two years ago Austin, Texas lecturer Kate Dawson appealed in The Journalist for former hacks who worked around Fleet Street in the early 1950s. She was researching a book,
Death in the Air, the intersecting stories of two killers – the Great Smog of 1952 that was responsible for the deaths of some 12,000 people in London and the notorious serial killer John Reginald Christie who used the fog to cloak his crimes. Phyllis Oberman, who was an
18-year-old reporter working on the fringes of Fleet Street during that period, replied.
Oberman showed Dawson around her old haunts, including the journalists’ church St Bride’s, the Wig and Pen Club, the Cheshire Cheese, El Vino’s, the Kardomah cafe and the Daily Express building, which was known as the Black Lubyanka. Oberman also advised on
journalist terms and practices, receiving a credit in the book. She told Arts with Attitude:
“I had fun trawling through my memories but I wonder how well I did my job as an informant. Maybe other old Fleet Street hacks will find errors in the book that I did not pick up.”
http://tinyurl.com/ya9x8e9t
Glengarry Glen Ross Playhouse Theatre, London, until February Christian Slater takes the lead in David Mamet’s tale of lies, corruption and greed. Set in Chicago with cut-throat salesmen – “close the deal and you’ve earned yourself a Cadillac; lose the deal and you’re f****ed” – it returns to the West End for the first time in 10 years with a cast including Kris Marshall, Robert Glenister and Don Warrington.
www.playhousetheatrelondon. com
Festival Dublin Bowie Festival Venues across Dublin, January 5-10 Two years after the death of David Bowie, the dancing, singing, partying
festival returns to more than a dozen venues across Dublin. With film and documentary screenings, debates and discussions, literary, fine art and fashion events, quizzes, a BowieOke and, of course, music, fans can pay their own tribute to the Thin White Duke.
dublinbowiefestival.ie
Exhibition
Swaps: Photographs from the David Hurn Collection National Museum Cardiff until 11 March Throughout his career as a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos, David Hurn has been an avid collector of photography. Now, to mark the
opening of Amgueddfa Cymru’s first gallery dedicated to the art, he displays some of the 700 images from the 20th and
21st centuries from his private collection including work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Sergio Larrain and Bill Brandt.
https://museum.wales/cardiff/
Safer Steps: The Work of the HALO Trust
National War Museum, Edinburgh, until March 4 Celebrating the work of the world’s largest humanitarian mine clearance organisation, this exhibition explores the lifesaving work of this major Scottish charity through personal testimony, photography and objects.
www.nms.ac.uk/ national-war-museum/
Books The Way It Was Long-standing NUJ member David Lewis has published The Way It Was: A Pictorial History of Britain in the ‘Sixties. It contains more than 200 of his photographs taken during the early part of his career in Fleet Street and Paris. David says that the images, which appeared in some of the world’s most prestigious publications, will transport you back to the era of flower power and the birth of the computer age.
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