in conversation with Martin Esslin
Part 2
When Elisabeth Bergner came to this country in 1933, she recreated for English audiences in the theatre and cinema the legendary position she had won in Germany. There were films like Escape Me Never and As You Like It (in which she played Rosalind and which was one of the first films to be made from a Shakespeare play.)

In the second of two programmes she talks to Martin Esslin, former head of BBC Radio Drama, about her career in this country; about J.M. Barrie, who wrote his last play specially for her: about her stormy relationship with Bernard Shaw: and she tells of a particularly memorable meeting with Beckett.