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DENNIS POTTER – THE REAL AUTEUR

Dear Editor,

While history and memory and the memory of history all seem to get shorter and shorter every decade, it’s a little surprising that neither James McNamara’s informative essay (ABR, April 2014), nor one of your commentators, could have found space for even a brief mention of the one writer for television who really does deserve the term auteur – Dennis Potter.

 


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