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Joan Bakewell on her response to Pinter's Betrayal

In 1978 Harold Pinter sent Joan Bakewell a copy of his new play Betrayal. Upon reading it she discovered that it was based on an affair they'd had years earlier and which had remained a secret. Shocked and bewildered she wrote her own play in response. Keeping In Touch has been hidden away ever since, but in 2017 was broadcast on Radio 4. Joan Bakewell talks to Kirsty Lang about seeing the affair portrayed on stage with such vivid accuracy.

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