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Picture: 27 November 1932, Trotsky speaking in Copenhagen at the invitation of Social Democratic students. His last public speech in front of a live audience. The words of the title were uttered by Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Prime Minister at a cabinet meeting in 1929. Leon Trotsky’s application for political asylum in Britain (1929-30)

Picture: 27 November 1932, Trotsky speaking in Copenhagen at the invitation of Social Democratic students. His last public speech in front of a live audience. The words of the title were uttered by Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Prime Minister at a cabinet meeting in 1929. Leon Trotsky’s application for political asylum in Britain (1929-30)

Picture: 27 November 1932, Trotsky speaking in Copenhagen at the invitation of Social Democratic students. His last public speech in front of a live audience. The words of the title were uttered by Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Prime Minister at a cabinet meeting in 1929. Leon Trotsky’s application for political asylum in Britain (1929-30)

WHO was the Elfin Fury, the Mighty Atom, the Fiery Particle?

POLITICS, the weather, monsters, Sixties and Eighties favourites, comedy songs and a north eastern tornado all are talking points for Charles…

Our roundup of plays to watch at home in May includes The Tempest with Jessie Buckley, Robert Icke’s The Doctor staged in Amsterdam and Amanda Wilkin’s superb solo show Shedding a Skin

Big topics dominate Scottish stages in May, from considered portrayals of mental health issues to thought-provoking political sagas

Award-winning poet and playwright Caroline Bird discusses turning the life of workers' rights activist Ellen Wilkinson into a new play, Red Ellen.

Caroline Bird’s drama about the Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson gives us the bullet points of an extraordinary life but slips into melodrama

Caroline Bird's biographical drama runs until 30 April