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    Blessing and a curse

    Jul 11, 2021 3 minutes

    British acting great Glenda Jackson spent 23 years as a Labour MP, finally bowing out in 2015. Her first screen role since her retirement from politics is in Elizabeth Is Missing, an acclaimed BBC TV drama in which she plays Maud, a woman living with dementia who is attempting to unravel a double mystery – the seeming disappearance of an elderly friend and that of her sister decades earlier.

    It’s based on the 2014 novel

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