THE co-artistic director of the RSC admits he ignored advice to use a burner phone, while on a business visit to China. Daniel Evans, who’s with the Prime Minister Keir Starmer on a three-day trade trip to Beijing, told a BBC radio interviewer that the advice he’d been given was contradictory, so he decided to follow his instincts and stick with his own mobile phone. That prompted Radio 4 World at One host Sarah Montague to ask whether he was afraid of surveillance? RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans plays Edward II in the new production in The Swan. Photo: Mark WilliamsonTo which Evans shot back: “Sarah, I'm the co-artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.