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2008:

  1. A conversation about the film "The Reader"
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    60 min
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  2. Daily Highlights Wednesday December 24, 2008
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    2 min
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2006:

  1. A conversation with playwright David Hare
    Duration
    35 min
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1999:

  1. A rebroadcast of an interview with David Hare
    Duration
    19 min
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  2. A conversation with British playwright David Hare
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    30 min
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David Hare David Hare

Sir David Hare is a celebrated British playwright. He co-founded Portable Theatre Company, acting, directing and writing plays. He was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1970-1 and Resident Dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1973. He co-founded Joint Stock Theatre Group with David Aukin and Max Stafford-Clark in 1975, and held a U.S./U.K. Bicentennial Fellowship in 1977. He has been Associate Director of the National Theatre since 1984. He was knighted in 1998 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

His plays include “Knuckle”, “Plenty”, “Pravda: A Fleet Street Comedy”, “The Secret Rapture”, the trilogy “Racing Demon”, “Murmuring Judges” and “The Absence of War”, “Skylight”, “Amy’s View” and “The Judas Kiss”. More recent plays include “My Zinc Bed”, “The Breath of Life” and “The Permanent Way”. His recent plays, “Stuff Happens” and “The Vertical Hour”, are about the invasion of Iraq and the public reactions in both the U.S. and Britain.

His film work includes the screenplay for the screen adaptation of “Plenty” in 1985, and he wrote and directed the films “Wetherby”, “Paris by Night” and “Strapless”. His book, “Obedience, Struggle and Revolt”, is a collection of lectures about politics and art.

Source-Contemporary Writers http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth253