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- ↑ "Jeremy Peyton Jones [obituary]". Goldsmiths, University of London. 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
- ↑ "The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon review – celluloid ghosts are spellbinding on stage". The Guardian. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
