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‘Corruption has only got worse’: can a new version of Our Friends in the North still shock audiences 30 years on?
Source: The Guardian · Published
<p>Peter Flannery’s 90s TV drama classic is getting a theatre reworking in Newcastle. The director and cast talk about doing justice to its themes of scandal and decay – and emulating its star-making…
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