As his play Bingo returns to London, playwright Edward Bond gives a rare interview to Andrew Dickson, looking back on five decades and more than 50 plays. He talks about the genesis of his controversial 1965 script Saved, which ended in a real-life courtroom drama, about taking audiences to uncomfortable places – and explains why there's more violence in an episode of Coronation Street than in his plays. From the Guardian, 2/28.