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"I had walked all the way from Oxford Circus. It was the 20th of December - but the sun, in a rare moment of compassion for its earthly progeny, had its hat on, and the sky was a deep, mediterranean blue. Walking in the sunshine it wasn't all that cold. In fact, it was lovely. When I saw the bars on the windows of the prison I realised what a privileged position I was in. Just being able to walk in the sun. It's a cliché, but it brings one's perspective sharply into focus.
I sincerely believe that the LSW Prison Project brings a little bit of that outside light into the inside. To go back to U2, for one afternoon we were some 'friendly' faces 'to take them out of that place', not with sunshine, but with Shakespeare."

["All That You Can't Leave Behind"-a diary entry by Tom Hiddleston, HMP Pentoville 20 December 2001]

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