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Tom Stubbs writes: Both actors – Joss Ackland and Alec Guinness –are at the top of their game

Black Friday 2023 is the time to get a Lightsaber for your favorite Star Wars fan.

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In 2022, writer Suleika Dawson published an intimate, refreshingly candid first-hand account of her passionate extramarital affair with David Cornwell – who worked as an intelligence agent for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and early 1960s, and wrote spy novels using the pseudonym John le Carré.

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A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Benedick’s romcom gets a feminist framing and Lear faces dystopia as the revered rep company returns in full force

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The star of Netflix’s hit series made some candid remarks about the show’s writing on a podcast this week, revealing she had become ‘almost unprofessional’ while making changes on set. We shouldn’t be criticising her, argues Louis Chilton – it was a welcome respite from the usual PR hogwash

New book The Secret Life of Ealing Films by Robert Sellers reveals the secrets from behind the scenes of classic movies, including a crevasse fall by John Mills and the stunt that nearly drowned Alec Guinness

The lots include three Star Wars posters autographed by Sir Alec Guinness, who played the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original films.