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Eileen Atkins

Eileen Atkins

Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Eileen Atkins

Desert Island Discs · BBC Radio 4

November 29, 199837m 37s

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Show Notes

Sue Lawley's castaway this morning is the actress Eileen Atkins. From dancing in working men's clubs as a child to portraying Virginia Woolf on Broadway and the snobbish Celia for Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologue, she traces her life as performer and writer.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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