Joan Bakewell responds to Pinter's Betrayal with her take on their affair
The broadcaster's play Keeping in Touch, aired on Radio 4, is a reply to the classic 1978 drama about the pair's clandestine seven-year relationship"Truth in drama is forever elusive," said Harold Pinter in his lecture on receiving the Nobel prize for literature in 2005. You could hardly have a better demonstration of that than in two plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday. One was Pinter's Betrayal. The other wa…