The living newspaper of the theatre is the rich fund of actors' stories - comical, tragical, apocryphal - that chart the ups and downs, the triumphs and disasters, the dreams and nightmares, of this perilous profession. This series of five programmes combines the best stories and the best storytellers in a theatrical anthology with chapters on Auditions, First Nights,
Mechanical Hazards, Drying and Corpsing, Dr Theatre, Dreams and Superstitions. Tonight's contributors include Jenny Agutter, Richard Briers, Eleanor Bron, Ken Campbell, Frances De La Tour, Denholm Elliott, Michael Gambon, Freddie Jones, Roy Kinnear, Maureen Lipman, Anna Massey, Ron Moody, Denis Quilley, Leonard Rossiter, Victor Spinetti.
BBC Bristol
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