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6. Watching Rome Burn

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Playing Nero in Quo Vadis - Peter Ustinov continues to read his autobiography. From 1978.

An Oscar nomination for Nero and a West End play “the wind was in my sails”.  Peter Ustinov reads his autobiography.

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.

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