Do you have a strong bladder, two weeks to spare and a keen interest in a dark episode of recent British history?
Then head for the Edinburgh Fringe next month, where comedians and authors will read out the Chilcot report in its entirety —all 2.6 million words — in a performance that will run 24 hours a day and last for about a fortnight.
Stewart Lee, Omid Djalili and Reginald D Hunter, the comics, will be joined by Ian Rankin, the novelist, and a host of other notable figures to read, in shifts of two performers per hour, the full report of the Iraq inquiry in an event called Iraq Out and Loud.
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Rankin, who wrote the Rebus novels, said: “I was on my