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...The media continue to inhabit an Alan Bennett world of the elderly that actually began to disappear a couple of decades ago....
...The late 18th-century epidemic of copycat suicides by men in yellow trousers after the publication of Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther is a meme. Rioting is a meme....
...Alan sets out across the Middle East to find him and the audience is taken through an indoor maze of brothels, five-star hotels and war-ravaged desert landscapes....
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