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From Thatcher to Brexit: Writer James Graham on Britain's divided history

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Is Britain more divided now than ever? One of the best-known writers of his generation, James Graham, is responsible for Dear England, Punch and This House. He grew up in Nottinghamshire, and witnessed how communities were torn apart by the miners' strike of 1984-85. Decades later, he wrote about those divisions in his hit TV drama Sherwood, about a community still living with the legacy of the strike. Forty years on, with Britain still wrestling with the fallout from Brexit and the culture wars, are we becoming a more and more divided country? In an at times emotional chat, James joins Ca…

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