The Plague

Wednesday 19th April 2017

Billy Postlethwaite, Burt Caesar and Martin Turner in The Plague. Photo: Alex Brenner
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Text of the day: “Facts are bound to seem reasonable to some and improbable to others — and I don’t think a reporter has to justify that contradiction. Our job is just to say this is what happened. Then people can make up their minds.” (Rambert in Neil Bartlett’s The Plague)

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