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Bohemian conformity can be just as suffocating as any other type: BBC1’s Life in Squares reviewed

Plus: BBC1’s new Agatha Christie adaptation Partners in Crime should be somewhere between a disappointment and a car crash

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

On all those comic lists of the world’s shortest books (Great Italian War Heroes, My Hunt for the Real Killers, by O.J. Simpson etc.), the best title I ever came across was Bloomsbury: the Untold Story. Now, though, BBC2’s new drama, Life in Squares, is giving us yet another chance to marvel at how many sexual permutations one small group of people can achieve.

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