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Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy, Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition): Brynne Weaver, Joe Arden, Lucy Rivers, Blue Nose Publishing: : Audible Books & Originals

Panto tropes are happily pooh-poohed with a gender-swapped Scrooge and properly terrifying puppetry in Joe Murphy’s triumphant Dickens redo

Rating: Verdict: Requires concentration Messianic theatre director Emma Rice is offering to heal the loneliness of lockdown with a bit of alternative therapy at the Old Vic: her own adaptation of the 1987 art house movie Bagdad Cafe — best known for Bob Telsons haunting theme tune, Calling You. Its the story of a Bavarian woman, Jasmin, abandoned by her husband beside a freeway through the Mojave desert in the western U.S., who takes refuge in a roadside cafe. The diner-cum-gas-station is ru...