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Episode 6: Celebrating Life

An exploration of celebrity culture in the last 70 years through facets of Elizabeth Taylor’s life.

β€œWith my name, I could open doors, I was a commodity in myself – and I’m not talking as an actress... I could take the fame I resented and tried to get away from for so many years – but you can never get away from it – and use it to do some good…” And the cause Elizabeth Taylor championed, earlier and more energetically than anyone else, was AIDS awareness.

With David Furnish, Chairman of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Marc Thompson, Co-Director of The Love Tank, and archive from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

With Louise Gallagher.
Produced by Alan Hall with music by Jeremy Warmsley.
A Falling Tree production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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28 minutes

Last on

Sun 5 Feb 2023 21:30

Broadcasts

  • Tue 18 Oct 2022 11:30
  • Sun 5 Feb 2023 21:30