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    How not to get pickled

    Jul 28, 2022 2 minutes

    • In 1991, Alan Bennett’s one-act play

    was set to celluloid by the BBC. In a key scene, Soviet spy turned Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, Sir Anthony Blunt (portrayed by James Fox), is surprised by The Queen (Prunella Scales) whilst working in the Buckingham Palace picture gallery. Their conversation turns to the famed forger of

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