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...Megan Randles, political campaigner at the charity Greenpeace UK, said there had been “five years of dithering and pollution” over deposits....
...on portrayals of Churchill similar to that secured by Robert Hardy a generation ago, all appear in subordinate and relatively undemanding roles....
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...Tom Randle and Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts made a well-contrasted pair of tenors as lover Boris and husband Tichon, and the subsidiary pair of Varvara and Kudrjás were well sung by Patricia Orr and, especially...
...Robert Brubaker is the magnificently rough-hewn Laca, Tom Randle a believably dissolute Steva, and all the comprimarios are good....
...And although Branagh plays the race card by casting dark-skinned Thomas Randle as Monostatos, Randle, a one-time stage Tamino, has more dash and sex appeal than most of the white-bread males on view....
...No one has a chance to make an impression – not Rosalind Plowright’s melodramatic Marfa, not Robert Hayward’s blustering Khovansky père, not Julian Close’s anonymous Dosifei....
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