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When We Are Married review – JB Priestley playfully upends gender roles

In Priestley’s shenanigan-filled 1934 comedy, three couples discover they are not married after all – meaning the men lose authority and the women gain freedoms

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025

When We Are Married at Donmar Warehouse: This zesty revival is a joyful rediscovery

4/5 The pleasure is in the cast’s performance with Tim Sheader’s version of JB Priestley’s 1938 quietly radical comedy

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2025

An inspector’s calling: JB Priestley’s plea for justice echoes beyond his best-known play

His parable of collective social responsibility is a hardy classic but the Yorkshire playwright’s wider legacy should not be neglected

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2025

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Home at Seven review – a superbly acted time-slip mystery by RC Sherriff

A man returns home having been reported missing for 24 hours in this welcome revival of the Journey’s End writer’s postwar hit

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2025

The week in audio: The Fever; An Inspector Calls on Moscow; Titanic: Ship of Dreams; Daly Brightness; Private Passions

Cate Blanchett balances intimacy and ferocity in an anticapitalist monologue. Plus, an origin story for JB Priestley’s controversial play, and the tragedy of the Titanic is given a personal angle by Paul McGann

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2025

An Inspector Calls review – Alastair Sim drawing room drama brilliantly exposes its era’s hypocrisies

Sim is superbly insinuating as the detective arriving with a few questions for the complacent residents of a grand Edwardian home

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024

The beloved best-selling books on Amazon, from Colleen Hoover to ACOTAR

Keep up with the kids and delve into the current popular literature

Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2024

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Michael Culver obituary

Stage and screen actor known for his political campaigning, both in his choice of roles and his personal life

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2024

Tom Priestley obituary

Film editor who was nominated for an Oscar for Deliverance and sought to promote his father JB Priestley’s writing

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2024

Former country home of author and playwright J.B. Priestley on sale for £3 million

The An Inspector Calls author lived at Billingham Manor on the Isle of Wight between 1933 and 1948

Evening Standard · Jan 11, 2024

Keith Baxter obituary

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2023

Shock ending: how the Costa book awards changed reading – and pitted husband against wife

After 50 years, the prize has been scrapped. How did it change Britain’s literary landscape? And what happened at the awards when Margaret Drabble was seated next to Theresa May?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2022

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