Samuel West interview: The actor and director on austerity, unionisation, and not mentioning his famous parents
The arts aren't an add-on We have a real problem with the double squeeze of Arts Council cuts and local authority cuts. Ultimately the problems in today's society " truancy, crime, ill health, fundamentalism " are things that a well-funded arts sector can be part of a solution to. How is it possible to become a fundamentalist? By not seeing things from another's point of view. Well, that's what art lets you do.