Article: It's all a bit cloak and dagger; Tom Stoppard tells Terry Grimley why he has high hopes for Birmingham Rep's revival of Hapgood.(News)

Byline: Terry Grimley

When Sir Tom Stoppard appeared in Melvyn Bragg's recent South Bank Show about 1968, he was a lone voice distancing himself from the radical protest in which some of his artistic contemporaries were swept up 40 years ago.

Given that the Czech-born playwright was effectively a double refugee, first from the Germans and then the Soviet tanks which swept into Prague that year, it's perhaps understandable that he found the idea of knocking British bobbies' helmets off a touch self-indulgent.

Could it be that, despite its enduring nostalgia for old ...

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