Laura Wade

Hosted by Pandora Sykes, this podcast brings listeners inside the world of “Rivals” through conversations with its onscreen stars, including David Tennant, Aidan Turner, and Emily Atack, alongside the executive producers and creative team. Joined by celebrity guests and Dame Jilly Cooper superfans, the podcast explores the rivalries, scandals, and drama that define Rutshire.

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It is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really blossom?

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In Laura Wade’s clever play, her heroine becomes a 50s housewife but 21st-century gender politics lurk under the Formica surface.

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A politician learns an uncomfortable truth about food-bank Britain. Katherine Parkinson stars in a 'microplay' written by Laura Wade and directed by Carrie Cracknell, after conversations with social affairs writer Amelia Gentleman and food blogger Jack Monroe. Britain Isn't Eating is the first in a series of plays made in collaboration between Guardian journalists and Royal Court Theatre-makers.

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Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.

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A celebrity meets a person at the airport. All is fine until the person finds out that if they return home, they will be arrested.

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