A TIME OF SPIRALLING INDUSTRIAL unrest, concerns about Russian influence on democratic politics, rows about the government’s influence on the media and threats to the future of the BBC.
The power plays of 1926 look like a more pronounced version of today’s tensions — and the rival claims of government, public service broadcasters, trade unions and the Archbishop of Canterbury — to embody progress and stability.
at the Donmar Warehouse is the prolific Jack Thorne’s intelligent excavation of the stand-off between Stanley Baldwin’s government and the nascent broadcaster in
