By the early 1950s, the versatile Peter Ustinov turns 28 and is cast as Nero in the film Quo Vadis.

He swelters in Rome, before returning to London to pen a play for the Wyndhams Theatre where a romantic encounter awaits...

The writer, director and actor continues his autobiography

Abridged by Jack Singleton.

Producer Rosemary Hart

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1978. Show less