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Diary

Max Hastings’s diary: The joys of middle age, and Prince Charles’s strange letters

Plus: A golden age for TV interviewing, and the need for better spies

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

I am living in rustic seclusion while writing a book. Our only cultural outing of the week was to Newbury cinema to see, transmitted from the National Theatre, Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, object of rave reviews. We respected the piece but did not enjoy it. Granted, appreciation of all major works of art requires an effort by the viewer, listener, reader.

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Max Hastings is a former editor of the Daily Telegraph. His most recent book is Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914.

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