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Viewers praise Lucian Msamati’s ‘chlling’ portrayal of paedophile in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads

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Horrified viewers said they were left ‘heaving’ after watching Lucian Msamati’s ‘chilling’ portrayal of a paedophile who tries to justify his crimes after abusing a young girl in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads last night The actor, 44, plays Wilfred, a groundskeeper who tries to justify sexually abusing a little girl he met while in the … Read more

Artist Celia Paul loved Lucian Freud so passionately that it made her ill

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BOOK OF THE WEEK Self-Portrait by Celia Paul (Cape £20, 216 pp) Just be glad you weren’t a young, innocent, impressionable female art student at the Slade in the 1970s. It was all too likely that you’d be spotted by Lucian Freud, who was a visiting tutor and used to prowl the corridors and refectory. … Read more