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The National Theatre at 50 Episodes

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  1. Pravda

    By Howard Brenton. Can media tycoon Lambert La Roux's lust for power be stopped?

  2. Amadeus

    By Peter Shaffer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final years. With Simon Callow.

  3. The History Boys

    By Alan Bennett. The tussles of staffroom rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence.

  4. The Third Soldier Holds his Thighs

    By Mark Lawson. How Mary Whitehouse sparked 1982's obscenity trial of Michael Bogdanov.

  6. Elmina's Kitchen

    By Kwame Kwei-Armah. Life is tough for ex-boxer Deli, in his caf茅 on Hackney's Murder Mile

  7. The Nativity

    The story of Christ's birth. Bill Bryden's National Theatre, based on medieval plays.

  8. The National Theatre at 50

    Daniel Rosenthal conjures up stories and scenes from a unique national institution.