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	<title>Jake Wallis Simons</title>
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		<title>A comic in words: Rip-off in Tel Aviv</title>
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(First performed 29th February 2010 at Jewish Book Week / JCC Writers&#8217; Football Literary Event, London)
The first panel. The picture is drawn from a bird’s eye perspective, looking down upon cramped rooftops beginning to bake. Cables and wires stretch from one side of the road to another, and in the background are Bauhaus-style apartment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jakewallissimons.com/2010/03/a-comic-in-words-rip-off-in-tel-aviv-first-performed-29th-february-2010-at-writers-football-team-reading-london/</link>
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		<title>The British PoW who broke into Auschwitz &#8211; and survived (from the Times)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read this on the Times website
Denis Avey, even at the age of 91, cuts a formidable figure. More than 6ft tall, with a severe short back and sides and a piercing glare, he combines the pan-ache of Errol Flynn with the dignity of age. This is the former Desert Rat, who, in 1944, broke into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jakewallissimons.com/2010/02/the-british-pow-who-broke-into-auschwitz-and-survived-from-the-times/</link>
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		<title>The Happiest Men in the World (from the Times)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read this on the Times website
It is a most unlikely scene. I am in an elegant sitting room in the Royal Society of Arts. Opposite me, sitting uncomfortably side-by-side on a too-low leather sofa, are an English peer and a French Buddhist monk. The contrast is striking. Lord Layard is white-haired, well-dressed and unobtrusive; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jakewallissimons.com/2010/02/the-happiest-men-in-the-world-from-the-times/</link>
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		<title>A Joke in Three Agonies &#8211; a monologue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First performed at the Literary Death Match Oxford, 4 November 2009
Spotlight on SPEAKER, dressed in smart suit, standing impassively. SPEAKER reaches into inside pocket and takes out a pair of sunglasses, puts them on, clearly impeding vision. SPEAKER delivers monologue in the rhetorical style of a preacher or a politician, without showing any sign of humour, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jakewallissimons.com/2010/02/a-joke-in-three-agonies-a-monologue/</link>
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		<title>The Travesty of Tony&#8217;s Tan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Chilcot Enquiry came on the television last week, I was in the waiting area of an office complex. Blair was on, and the volume was off. Not being able to hear what he was saying, I found myself focussing on how he looked. His body language was assured and domineering, with the trademark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jakewallissimons.com/2010/02/the-travesty-of-tonys-tan/</link>
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		<title>Chekhov at 150: brilliance in brief (from the Guardian)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read this on the Guardian website
&#8220;I&#8217;m crazy about Chekhov&#8221;, Woody Allen once remarked. &#8220;I never knew anyone that wasn&#8217;t.&#8221; Today, on Chekhov&#8217;s 150th birthday, that statement rings more true than ever. Much has been written about the enduringly modern quality of Chekhov&#8217;s work, and with good reason. He is one of the most frequently cited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jakewallissimons.com/2010/01/chekhov-at-150-brilliance-in-brief-from-the-guardian/</link>
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