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The TV architect grew up in council housing in a new town, Washington, in the north-east of England, which he said was a "very humane piece of design".

Some researchers are looking at the possibility of using oral contraceptives as an alternative, more humane way to prevent rat numbers growing further.

But as the fine Boston Court Pasadena production, incisively directed by Jessica Kubzansky, bears out, Williams is the humane, humorously defiant playwright we need when authoritarianism is on the march.

"We're not just there to be attacked and to be pulled up about anything, we're there to be spoken to in a humane way."

Animals that come from shelters, animal control facilities, humane societies and animal rescue organizations will still be able to be sold.