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    HABEAS CORPUS

    Jan 12, 2022 3 minutes

    Menier Chocolate Factory

    What on earth were they putting in our bedtime cocoa in the 1970s?

    Watching Alan Bennett’s scrumptious bedroom farce, I can conclude only that Ted Heath’s government must have been trying to raise the birth rate by spiking the nation’s supplies with some fiendish aphrodisiac.

    Virtually everyone in this play is absolutely gagging for it. Either we were getting far too much sex back then, or not nearly enough (I

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