Early in The Great Society, the sequel to the Tony-winning All The Way, President Lyndon B Johnson (Brian Cox) recalls the women of his youth in the Texas Hill Country, mothers and aunts with bent backs and hands crabbed by a “dog’s life”. When a younger Johnson finally made it to Washington, he did whatever it took to bring them electricity – kissed up, begged, told “a lie or two”. The ends justified the means, he was sure. “When that first electric pump brought water into the house at the turn of a tap,” he asks, “do you think any of those women thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t use this, Lyndon lied.’” To read more, click here.