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Heisenberg gets ‘let off the hook’ in new historical drama based on the Farm Hall transcripts

16 Aug 2024

Philip Ball reviews Farm Hall by Katherine Moar at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, which runs until 31 August 2024

Farm Hall cast
Listening exercise Set in a Cambridgeshire country house of the same name, Farm Hall dramatizes the post-war deliberations (from left to right) of the physicists Kurt Diebner (Julius D'Silva), Erich Bagge (Archie Backhouse), Otto Hahn (Forbes Masson), Werner Heisenberg (Alan Cox), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (Daniel Boyd) and Max von Laue (David Yelland). (Courtesy: Alex Brenner)
As the Second World War reached its endgame in Europe in 1945, Allied forces advancing towards Berli

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Philip Ball is a science writer based in the UK, e-mail p.ball@btinternet.com
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