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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

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David Hare
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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St Leonards
East Sussex
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