Jack Thorne Interview | Donmar Warehouse

Writer Jack Thorne talks about his new play WHEN WINSTON WENT TO WAR WITH THE WIRELESS.

At a time when the BBC is faced once again with the challenges of impartiality, this is a gripping new play about the birth of a great British institution by multi award-winning stage and screen writer Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child stage play, His Dark Materials for BBC One), directed by Katy Rudd (Ocean at the End of the Lane, Eureka Day).

WHEN WINSTON WENT TO WAR WITH THE WIRELESS
BY JACK THORNE
2 June - 29 July 2023

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Images:
Winston Churchill - The Roaring Lion by Yousuf Karsh (1941) Library and Archives Canada
The General Strike in North East UK (1926)
Arthur Cook with a crowd of strikers (1926)
The British Worker No.1 (1926) Warwick Digital Collections
Crowds in Hyde Park during the general strike (1926)
Daily Graphic (1926) Warwick Digital Collections
Workers parading in the General Strike (1926) The Edinburgh Reporter
Photo of family listening to a crystal radio (1922) Radio Manufacturers of the 1920s, Vol. 2
Lord John Reith by Howard Coster (1934) National Portrait Gallery
Journalist Emily Maitlis' MacTaggart Lecture (2022) Edinburgh TV Festival    • The James MacTaggart Lecture 2022: Em...  
Front pages of The Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Express, The Observer and The Guardian on March 11th-12th 2023
Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) March 7, 2023 -   / garylineker  

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