Dame Harriet Walter
From Prokofiev to Nina Simone, actress Dame Harriet Walter shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From June 2011.
From Prokofiev to Nina Simone.
Dame Harriet Walter shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young.
The actress has been a stalwart of the stage for more than three decades - winning great acclaim for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Performing ran in the family - her uncle is the actor Christopher Lee and she remembers how, as a child, he would make her shriek by putting on his famous 'Mummy' walk to scare her. She turned down a place at Oxford because she knew she wanted to act - only to find that the drama schools weren't keen on her... she was turned down five times before securing a place.
Dame Janet says she has never thought about making clever career choices, but, in the year in which she was made a dame, turned 60 and married for the first time, she says it has all turned out better than she ever expected.
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in June 2011.
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