The ever-entertaining world of newspapers (just look at the current shenanigans involving the will-they-or-won’t-they deal betwixt Trinity Mirror and Richard Desmond) has spawned a hit play in London’s West End. 

Ink harks back to the late 1960s, and the arrival on the newspaper scene of an ambitious Australian by the name of Rupert Murdoch. He’s played by Bertie Carvel (yes, the badly behaved hubby from Dr Foster).

The play depicts how Murdoch, together with editor Larry Lamb (played by Richard Coyle), took on Hugh Cudlipp’s mighty Daily Mirror with their upstart title The Sun. 

In her five-star review for Time Out, Caroline McGinn has high praise for how the play depicts the duo ripping up the rule book and giving readers what they want, including, erm, nipples. She says Ink has “a phenomenal cast of character actors playing working girls, flower children, stone-smiting chapel fathers, booze-hounds and hacks.”

It runs until 6 January 2018 at the Duke of York Theatre – surely a stone-smiting must-see for industry aficionados?