David Walliams
chooses the playwright Harold Pinter
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Writer, Actor and Comedian |
Co-creator of TV shows Little Britain and Come Fly With Me. Books include Mr Stink and Camp David. In 2006 swam the English Channel. Judge on Britain's Got Talent.
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The plays of Harold Pinter
David Walliams talks to Mark Lawson about his life-long fascination with the plays of Harold Pinter, from seeing The Collection at school to acting in No Man's Land with Michael Gambon on the West End听stage. 听
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Harold Pinter
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Harold Pinter听talks to Mark Lawson about听his healthy dislike of audiences.
Pinteresque Pauses
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Harold Pinter and Mark Lawson discuss the writer's trademark pauses.
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Betrayal
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Olivia Colman and Andrew Scott star in an extract from Pinter's 1978 play about adultery, Betrayal.
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Antonia Fraser
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Harold Pinter's widow Lady Antonia Fraser on her decision to write about life with the writer, and their reaction when he won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.听
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Rob Brydon
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Comedian Rob Brydon tells Mark Lawson about his embarrassing meeting with Harold Pinter.
Pinter's Pacifism
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Theatre critic Michael Billington and politician Diane Abbott on Harold Pinter's politics.听
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