George Orwell in a film that blends archive material with present-day reflections about truth and democracy. Damian Lewis narrates.


Television Secret Service ITV


Spring Small-screen adaptation of one of the 10 novels by ITV News at Ten anchor Tom Bradby. Filmed in Malta and London, the thriller stars Gemma Arterton as a senior MI6 officer, dealing with rising tensions between Russia and the UK.


Theatre Ukraine Unbroken Arcola Theatre London February 26–March 28 Five short plays by David Edgar, Cat Goscovitch, David Greig, Jonathan Myerson and Natalka Vorozhbit, reflecting the recent turbulent history of Ukraine. Nicolas Kent directs a production featuring live Ukrainian music.


The Plough and the Stars Abbey Theatre, Dublin February 27–April 30 Exactly a century ago, Sean O’Casey’s play provoked uproar for its less than reverential portrayal of those who had fought for Ireland’s independence in 1916. Now regarded as a classic, it has been revived by Tom Creed.


In the Print King’s Head Theatre, London March 26–May 3 Playwrights Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky turn Rupert Murdoch’s battle of Wapping into a political thriller, pitting print union boss Brenda Dean against a newspaper proprietor prepared to put 5,000 jobs on the line in the name of technological progress.


Spotlight Prophet of profits


Jason Whittaker takes the title of his book from a remark by John B Evans, a player in Rupert Murdoch’s empire. “You want what


we’ve got,” he told the tech specialists at a 1992 multimedia conference. He added: “Including our profits.” He was right. They


did want it and, as Whittaker shows, they got it. Subtitled ‘Big tech v big journalism’, You Want What We’ve Got is a fascinating overview of the shift in power that has taken place during many of our working lives.


Evans was talking in


an era when old media was at a commercial peak. Yet to lose readers and advertisers to the internet, the major newspapers were as profitable as they were influential. In less than three decades, the


media moguls would be eclipsed by Meta, Apple and Amazon. The author, who is


professor of communications at the University of Lincoln, charts the progress of the takeover, shaped by historical events such as the Gulf war and the pandemic, and by innovations including search engines and AI. All of this raises


questions about democracy, accountability and trust. In an age when truth is in contention, Whittaker’s book is a vital account of how we got here. You Want What


We’ve Got: Big Tech v Big Journalism, Jason Whittaker, Reaktion Books, out now


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