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David Hare Remembers The Absence of War

Screenwriter David Hare recalls his 1995 drama The Absence of War, adapted from his own successful stage play, a fictional account of a Labour general election campaign.\n\nDavid Hare looks back at the research and how, to the dismay of some of Neil Kinnock’s colleagues, he was given access to his team in the 1992 election. On watching the production, Kinnock called it 'the three most difficult hours of my life'. \n\nDavid talks about the joy of working with a cast drawn mainly from the original National Theatre company production, and he discusses the universal themes the play covers, as relevant today as they were when the film was first shown 30 years ago.

Source: BBC 4