Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Autobiography Titles
2005
John Gielgud
Gielgud's Letters
Published March 2005 by Orion Audio at £12.99
ISBN: 0-75286 866 7
Read by Derek Jacobi Introduced and edited by Richard Mangan
Read by Derek Jacobi and Richard Mangan
John Gielgud wrote letters almost every day of his adult life. Whether at home in London and later in Buckinghamshire, or acting abroad or on location, he delighted in sitting down each day and recounting what had been going on and what he felt about events around him.
Not long before his death aged ninety-six in May 2000, he was still writing in an increasingly idiosyncratic and minuscule hand, which he confessed even he required a magnifying glass to read. Through the letters, which begin with those to his mother, we meet a man who delights in gossip, in describing what he sees and experiences.
Here for the first time — and not previously available to biographers — are some of Gielgud’s love letters. They show that he was not shy in expressing the intimacies of
personal relationships. Sir Derek Jacobi is highly respected for his work in theatre, television and film. His theatrical work includes the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and Cyrano de Bergerac, his acclaimed TV and film performances include I, Claudius, The Day of the Jackal, Henry V, Little Dorrit, Dead Again and Hamlet.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs 50 Mins
Produced by Nicholas Jones
John Gielgud
Gielgud's Letters
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