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BBC Radio 4, 8 May 2008
 
Peter Kavanagh’s revival of Harold Pinter’s Landscape was concerned with loneliness.  In a country house kitchen, the past is brewing up again, but as ever with Pinter we cannot trust it to be a real one. Beth (Penelope Wilton) and Duff (Harold Pinter himself) sat across a table, Beth dreaming of a summer of love in her youth. A beach, a man couched in the dunes. Was it Duff? Someone else? And why is he there now? The play offered a morbid post mortem on the causes of people’s sense of lack of fulfilment in their lives.