Paddington is alive. He’s walking, talking – and singing and dancing – in a musical adaptation of his story. Almost seven decades after he first appeared in Michael Bond’s A Bear Called Paddington in

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TUESDAY 6 JANUARY

Musical: Paddington: The Musical Savoy Theatre, London WC2 ...

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