welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. imagine a writer with a blank piece of paper. on the face of it, they re free to take their imagination in any direction they choose, tell any story they like. but it s not that simple. they need money, a commission. they need to win an audience, and for that, they must constantly adapt to changing tastes and technologies. my guest is one of the uk s leading playwrights and screenwriters, lucy prebble. she s had huge hits and one notable broadway miss. for a writer, how daunting can that blank piece of paper be? lucy prebble, welcome to hardtalk. hello, stephen. thanks for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you here. now, you are very busy right now, because a play that you originally wrote in 2012 and put on in 2012 has been revived at the national theatre in london in just the last few days. and it s got me wondering, as you have been heavily involved with the revival, how have you sort of seen the evolution of your own writin
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the ecb s decision to raise its benchmark rate by a 0.25% to 3.75% matches a peak last reached in 2001, at a time when it was trying to boost the value of the newly launched euro currency, which is now used in 20 countries. ecb president christine lagarde has warned consumer prices are still rising too fast and kept its options open for further increases. what i can assure you of, is that we are not going to cut. that is a definite no. but, on the other side, it could be a hike, it could be a pause. if it is a pause, it would not necessarily be for an extended period of time, because as i said, it will vary from meeting to meeting, because we continue to decide on a meeting by meeting basis, every time, informed by the data. a day after the us federal reserve raised its interest rate for the 11th time, new data suggests that it s not excessively dampening the world s biggest economy. a preliminary estimate suggests that the us economy grew 2.4% on an annualised basis between
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