More... Dame Maggie Smith and Kathleen Turner
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This is a very special conversation, recorded in March 2022, between Gyles and two great stars, who were also great friends: Dame Maggie Smith and Kathleen Turner. Maggie and Kathleen talk about how they met, at the stage door in a back alley in the West End, how they started out as actresses, about their breakthrough roles, and about the guardian angels who helped them along the way... and about much more besides. This is one of Maggie Smith's last interviews, and was produced and recorded by Fane Productions. We're delighted to be able to share this with you now - enjoy this.
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Today's Rosebud is an enormously entertaining talk given by Gyles at the Henley Literary Festival. Ostensibly about Gyles's books - Prose and Cons, a History of the English Language in Just a Minute, and Breaking the Code: Gyles's diaries from his days as an MP - this talk is actually much more...
Published 12/03/24
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Published 11/29/24