HeyJaredPolitical Fictions: political drama on screen and the page
Join Cory Hazlehurst and Mark Pack as they digest some of the best - and some of the worst - depictions of politics in fiction: film, TV and even the occasional book.
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State of Play: a classic BBC political drama revisited (opens the original)
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The Lives of Others: a powerful film about art and the Stasi (opens the original)
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Is “Let Bartlet Be Bartlet” good advice or not? (opens the original)
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The Death of Stalin: Armando Iannucci’s 2017 black comedy (opens the original)
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The Absence of War: David Hare’s fictionalised version of the 1992 general election (opens the original)
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