adaptations

Intensely thoughtful adaptations like this restore it, opening our eyes to corners of recent history we’d otherwise miss and benefit from knowing.

He made his name on stage and screen in the 1960s, and BBC adaptations of Richard II and Edward II in the 1970s saw him reprise roles he had already played to critical acclaim in the theatre.

Many critics have already given high marks to the latest in the platform’s series of screen adaptations of August Wilson’s “Century Cycle” of plays, which spotlight the triumphs and hardships faced by Black Americans in the 20th century, decade by decade.

The government is looking again at whether disabled people in England should be able to claim more than £30,000 to make adaptations to their homes.

It will include an assessment of the impact on disabled people who are unable to make adaptations because the cost exceeds £30,000.