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Songs to Sing, Feelings to Feel, Thoughts to Think

Songs to Sing, Feelings to Feel, Thoughts to Think

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Ben Sixsmith
Oct 08, 2023
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The death of Michael Gambon has me rewatching The Singing Detective — Dennis Potter’s 1986 BBC drama series.

It’s hard to imagine the BBC creating anything so weird today. But, then, it’s hard to imagine how anything so weird was ever created. Imagine Dennis Potter striding into a commissioning meeting and saying, “Okay, guys here’s the plan — a writer i…

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