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After Stoppard returned from Berlin, he shared a flat in Westminster with Marlowe and Piers Paul Read. “At this period, his idol was Mick Jagger,” Marlowe says. “He looked like him, he dressed like him, and he was thrilled when he found out that Jagger loved cricket as much as he did.” Stoppard transmuted “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern” from verse into prose, and turned out a couple of short plays for television; but for the greater part of 1965 “he lived on the Arabs,” as Kenneth Ewing puts it. “For some unfathomable reason, the BBC hired him to write the diary of an imaginary Arab student in London, which was then translated into Arabic and broadcast on the Overseas Service. He alternated with another author, and every other week he was paid forty pounds for five episodes. As far as I know, he had never met an Arab in his life. But the job kept him going for about nine months.” Eager to scan the results of this bizarre assignment, I approached the BBC for permission to consult its files. I was told that no copies of the scripts were in existence—a body blow to theatrical history

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