The verbatim monologues in Deep Heat are drawn from conversations Robin Soans has had or overheard, or are edited versions of interviews he has conducted in the course of research for his plays. Subjects range from people who have held high office to those who have blown them up; from those who live in large country houses to others whose home is two blankets and a pile of leaves in the corner of a disused garage. So much of what is passed on as historical fact is the version of events that those with an ulterior motive choose to project. This book doesn’t seek to judge, nor provide solutions; it seeks to redress the balance by giving a fair hearing even to those who may not share the same views as ours. Useful as audition pieces for actors, but equally of interest to the historian and sociologist in all of us. We are after all human, full of contradictions, and we can never inch our way towards greater self-knowledge if we don’t see more of the picture than is traditionally the case.
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Robin Soans. Deep Heat: Encounters with the Famous, the Infamous and the Unknown
DEEP HEAT
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. PHILIP. THE UNDERSTUDY (1)
2. PHYLLIS. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE TOWPATH
3. EDWINA
THE POISONED CHALICE
4. JONATHAN AITKEN
ESCAPE
PRISON
5. HALA JABER
THE FALL OF FALLUJAH
6. VITYA
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?
7. YA’AKOV
ROUTE 25
8. MUHAMAD
KUNAFA
9. RENA
ALIYAH
THE DEATH OF FRED
FLYING
10. SHARON
POLITICISED
ELECTED
11. UDAY
THE SUBWAY
12. SIR GERALD
FOUNDATIONS
13. THE STEWARDS OF SANDOWN PARK
VACANT AND ENGAGED
14. CATHERINE
LIFE ON THE EDGE
15. NORMAN TEBBIT
LEFT AND RIGHT
16. MO MOWLAM
MO
17. PAT MAGEE. So what about ‘Him’?
THE BROOM CUPBOARD
18. MARTIN SNODDEN
THE ROAD TO ARMS
19. ALI BOYRAZ
THE FUGITIVE
THE PRISONER
THE FREE MAN
20. MARGARET COOK
‘ON MESSAGE’
21. PAUL
‘OH MOTHER TELL YOUR CHILDREN’
22. CONRAD
MAGIC TRUFFLES
23. LEONIDAS
GBL
24. CHLOE
TAKING THE PLUNGER
25. CAROLINE
RADIO CAROLINE
26. MELISSA. BRIC-A-BRAC
27. PHILIP
THE UNDERSTUDY (2)
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ROBIN SOANS
ENCOUNTERS WITH THE FAMOUS,
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There’s something not quite right…listen…that’s not Simon and Gillian…listen…
He turns up the tannoy. The house manager’s voice.
