Omnibus presents Lillian Hellman, one of America's major playwrights, talking to Peter Adam at her New England home. A legend in her lifetime, Miss Hellman was recently portrayed by Jane Fonda in the film Julia.
Her plays, her political stands and her extraordinary life have kept her in the limelight for the last 40 years. A friend of Dorothy Parker and Dashiell Hammett , of Eisenstein, Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald , LILLIAN HELLMAN has fought, drunk and celebrated with many showbusiness and literary personalities. At 72 she is still as formidable, angry, tender, wittv and tough as she has always been.
Includine extracts from some of her plays.
Film editor MICHAEL CROZIER Written and produced by PETER ADAM
(The Loudest Whisper, adapted from Lillian Hellman 's play The Children's Hour, tomorrow 10.50 pm, BBC1)