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Emmanuel Kehoe on the latest small screen releases

Maggie Ireland-Jones, Sarah Kendall and Frazer Hadfield in Frayed, an unflattering portrayal of 1980s Australia
Ben Platt is ruthlessly ambitious student Payton Hobart in The Politician

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Frayed Sky One

The Politician Netflix

World on Fire BBC One

No Stone Unturned RTÉ One

One upon a time I wanted to be a bushranger in Australia, stepping with a pair of pistols from behind a coolabah tree and bellowing “Bail up!” at a stagecoach. That I blame on reading G A Henty’s A Final Reckoning, an 1887 tale of ...