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08-10-2016, 03:43 PM
Volunteers stage **n-stop reading of 2.6 million-word Chilcot report
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A group of actors, writers, politicians and volunteers are staging a reading of the entire Chilcot Report, the inquiry into the British role in the Iraq War, during this year's Edinburgh Fringe festival.*
SEE ALSO: The Chilcot Inquiry in numbers: What you need to k**w (http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/chilcot-inquiry-numbers-tony-blair-iraq-war/)
The 24/7 **n-stop performance, which started on August 8 with comedians Arthur (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/jan/24/arthur-smith-comedian)Smith, Nish Kumar, Shappi Khorsandi and Mark Thomas will continue for around two weeks in order to cover the sheer size of the report, which was published last month.*
With its 2.6 million words, the report is the end result of an e**rmous independent inquiry launched in 2009 by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown into the UK's involvement in the 2003 war in Iraq. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/chilcot-report-edinburgh-fringe-reading/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A group of actors, writers, politicians and volunteers are staging a reading of the entire Chilcot Report, the inquiry into the British role in the Iraq War, during this year's Edinburgh Fringe festival.*
SEE ALSO: The Chilcot Inquiry in numbers: What you need to k**w (http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/chilcot-inquiry-numbers-tony-blair-iraq-war/)
The 24/7 **n-stop performance, which started on August 8 with comedians Arthur (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/jan/24/arthur-smith-comedian)Smith, Nish Kumar, Shappi Khorsandi and Mark Thomas will continue for around two weeks in order to cover the sheer size of the report, which was published last month.*
With its 2.6 million words, the report is the end result of an e**rmous independent inquiry launched in 2009 by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown into the UK's involvement in the 2003 war in Iraq. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/chilcot-report-edinburgh-fringe-reading/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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